Oliver Griffin

1 week ago | marketscreener.com | Oliver Griffin

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Declining vegetable oil prices are clearing the way for Brazil to increase its mandatory biodiesel blend into diesel to 15%, up from 14%, Daniel Amaral, the director of economics and regulatory affairs at oilseed industry group Abiove, said on Monday. Brazil's national energy council decided in February to hold the blend at 14% amid fears the proposed increase could push up food prices, negatively hitting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's declining approval ratings.

1 month ago | marketscreener.com | Oliver Griffin

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Four Brazilian organizations on Thursday launched a fund aiming to raise 1 billion reais ($176 million) by 2030 for loans to small cocoa growers in the South American country to assist in expanding their operations. The Kawa fund, launched by the philanthropic Arapyau Institute, investment platform Violet, advocacy group Taboa, and impact investor MOV Investments, will initially lend some 30 million reais to 1,200 small-scale producers in the states of Bahia and Para.

1 month ago | msn.com | Oliver Griffin

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1 month ago | marketscreener.com | Oliver Griffin

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Four Brazilian organizations on Thursday launched a fund aiming to raise 1 billion reais ($176 million) by 2030 for loans to small cocoa growers in the South American country to assist in expanding their operations. The Kawa fund, launched by the philanthropic Arapyau Institute, investment platform Violet, advocacy group Toboa, and impact investor MOV Investments, will initially lend some 30 million reais to 1,200 small-scale producers in the states of Bahia and Para.

2 months ago | kfgo.com | Oliver Griffin

By Oliver GriffinBOGOTA (Reuters) – Deforestation in Colombia during 2024 rose 35% versus the previous year to 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles), Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Thursday. In 2023, Colombia’s deforestation fell to just over 792 square kilometers – a 23 year low – down from around 1,235 square kilometers in 2022. Colombia, host of last year’s COP16 U.N. biodiversity summit, is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries.