The Brazilian economy has undergone far-reaching changes, related especially to the loss of industrial capacity as deindustrialization has spread and commodity-export production has expanded. The Brazilian Amazon region forms part of the expansionary logic of the agro-industry and mining sectors. This article analyses the economic reproduction model of one of the main federative units located in that region, the State of Pará. It uses the specialization coefficients and location quotients of Brazil’s 27 subnational federative units, to make a case study of that State. The findings reveal a dec…
La economía brasileña ha experimentado profundos cambios, especialmente en lo relativo a la pérdida de capacidad industrial como consecuencia de su creciente desindustrialización y la expansión de su producción primario-exportadora. La Amazonía brasileña forma parte de la lógica expansiva de la agroindustria y de la extracción de minerales. Este artículo analiza el modelo de reproducción económica del estado de Pará, una de las principales unidades federativas situadas en la Amazonía. El estudio se basa en los coeficientes de especialización y los cocientes de localización de las veintisiete u…
Dear Executive Secretaries of the sister UN Regional Economic Commissions,
Dear Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team (CAT)
Dear Thilmeeza Hussain, Director of the Regional Commissions New York Office,
Distinguished guests, colleagues, and participants,
Welcome to this side-event on how Critical Energy Transition Minerals can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), convened under the auspices of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions.
Today, we gather to address a defining challenge of our time: powering and enabling the…
Good afternoon.
Dear colleagues of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO).
Dear Executive Secretaries of the UN regional commissions.
Ministers and distinguished guests.
It is my pleasure to be with you in this event and this panel on innovation and impetus on global energy interconnectivity.
I must begin by congratulating China for the Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) initiative and GEIDCO for your leadership in promoting this initiative, creating strong partnerships with all the co-organizing organizations of this event, and many othe…
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