India May Give Indication on Vaccine Delivery to a Scrambling Brazil by End of the Week 21/01/2021
Workers unload a pickup van that carries Oxford-Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines which arrived from India as a gift to Bangladesh, in Dhaka, Bangladesh January 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
New Delhi: India is likely to decide on exporting Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine to Brazil by the end of the week, nearly ten days after the Brazilian government’s plan to send a plane to pick up 2 million doses from Mumbai turned awry.
On Wednesday, India delivered 250,000 doses of Covishield to Bhutan and Maldives, which marked the supply of Indian-manufactured COVID-19 vaccines to foreign countries. Another three million doses were sent to Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday. These vaccines have been ‘gifted’ by India to these countries as part of a diplomatic campaign in the neighbourhood.
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On January 8, 2021 the Foreign Minister of Japan, Toshimitsu Motegi, made an official visit to Brasilia, consolidating the excellent moment in bilateral relations and giving renewed dynamism to the Brazil-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership.
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countries share values and principles, such as the respect for fundamental freedoms, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the observance of international law, as well as the commitment to democracy, free trade and the market economy. Brazil is home to the largest population of Japanese origin outside Japan – over 2 million people – and in Japan resides the 3rd largest community of Brazilians abroad – over 210 thousand nationals.
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The results of the recent municipal elections in Brazil were interpreted in distinct ways by the different actors involved. For some analysts, they clearly signaled a weakness of the 2018 far-right wave and of president Bolsonaro’s ability to successfully endorse candidates.
For others, they indicated a low-risk voting preference: the restricted campaign due to Covid-19 allegedly favored the re-election of mayors and city councilors as well as of candidates affiliated to well-established political parties.
Indeed, the strengthening of several right and center-right parties prompted some to assert the return of the ‘old politics’, or of politics proper, as opposed to the anti-political tendency of the last presidential election.
by Elton Alisson (Agência FAPESP) Biofuels play a fundamental role in decarbonizing the transportation sector. Current policies to grow biofuel production and use on a global scale, however, are not sufficiently ambitious, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
To address this problem, the IEA will assess the effectiveness of the policies implemented by leading producers of low-carbon fuels for transportation such as Brazil in order to help them identify bottlenecks, recommend solutions, and share best practices so as to move the bioenergy agenda forward.
The initiative was presented by IEA representatives during the Fourth Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference (BBEST), held online between November 30 and December 2.