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Brazil to use tax on oil production to combat climate change

by Ray on September 7, 2010

The Brazilian government plans to invest 200 million reais, some $113 million, next year to combat climate change and mitigate the effects of global warming, the Environment Ministry has announced.

The ministry’s secretary for climate change and environmental quality, Branca Americano, said the recently created National Fund on Climate Change would be partly financed by a new tax on oil production. [click to continue…]

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