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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 31 July 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 30 July, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian urged Brazil to renew its environmental commitments, as outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, during the COP25 climate meeting in Santiago de Chile later this year.... Read More
* The Brazilian government has revealed which ministries will be affected by the latest R$1.44bn (US$379.9m) budget contingencies, announced last week. The citizenship ministry will be the most affected with R$619.2m of its budget frozen, followed by the education ministry (R$348.5m) and the economy ministry (R$282.6m).... Read More
On 30 July, environmental NGO Greenpeace condemned the Chilean government for being “complicit” in the pollution of the coastal Quintero-Puchuncaví area in Valparaíso Region, caused by decades of unregulated industrial activity.... Read More
* Uruguay’s court of auditors (TCR) has reportedly prepared a draft settlement for an agreement between the Korean multinational construction company Hyundai and Uruguay’s state-owned electricity company UTE.... Read More
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