Brazil Hopes to Make the Amazon a Model for a Green Economy
November 8th, 2024
Via Yale e360, an article on Brazil’s initiatives to promote a “bioeconomy” in the Amazon that protects biodiversity and helps Indigenous residents. The goal: To get governments to commit to a new economic vision that is truly sustainable. “We must ensure that taking care of the forest is more profitable than cutting down the trees.” […]
Read more »China’s EV Makers Set Sights on Latin America in Global Expansion
November 4th, 2024
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how Brazil is now the biggest overseas market for BYD as China pushes out Western carmakers from America’s backyard: When Ford Motor shut its factory here in 2021 after more than a century in the country, Uelcson Alves and the automaker’s thousands of other workers in this once-thriving […]
Read more »Bolivia Stops Gas Sales To Argentina, Shifts Toward Brazil
October 6th, 2024
Via MercoPress, a report on Bolivia’s shift towards Brazil for gas sales: After terminating the supply to Argentina, Bolivia will up its gas pumping towards Brazil according to an agreement between YPFB and Petrobras. Buenos Aires announced it would no longer be needing Bolivian gas since Vaca Muerta, the second-largest reserve in the world and […]
Read more »Brazil Edges Closer To China’s Belt and Road. Why Now?
October 5th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at how signals from Brasília suggest the country may finally sign up to the Chinese initiative, as Lula’s government weighs up economic benefits, infrastructure goals and strategic gains: As China’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its second decade, the country appears on the verge of persuading Brazil to make the significant […]
Read more »Climate Migrants Stand to Overwhelm World’s Megacities
September 29th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how – from Dhaka to São Paulo – already crowded cities are unprepared to absorb people fleeing the effects of climate change. Some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations will see a mass reshuffling of their populations as the extreme environmental and weather events prompt entire communities to migrate […]
Read more »Driving Change: How EVs Are Reshaping China’s Economic Relationship with Latin America
September 28th, 2024
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a report on how Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are navigating a new geopolitical moment. Some LAC countries are benefitting from increased access to low-cost, high-quality electric vehicles (EVs) and new investment throughout the value chain from China that can help meet governments’ […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.