SAO PAULO – Recently, London-based YouGov conducted the poll that surveyed people in several European countries and reported that only 12% of those interviewed supported moving forward with the pact if the current rate of Amazon deforestation continues. Unfavorable European public opinion may, it is thought, threaten the loss of the EU-Mercosur commercial accord, worth … Read more
Continuing a trend of European businesses moving independently to protect the Amazon, France’s BNP Paribas announced it will no longer finance companies that buy cattle or soy produced on deforested or converted Amazon lands after 2008. The measure also applies to deforested lands in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a threatened tropical savanna eco-region covering 20% of … Read more
The drop started last Friday, and continued over the weekend and on Monday. The big tech stocks, like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, which have been on a long upward trend, have dropped significantly. The drop is considered possibly overdue given the high out-performance and positioning of the stocks. Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huUnAC9_jjk&feature=youtu.be German shoe company Birkenstock is the first major brand ever to pull out of Amazon’s U.S. online store. The business relationship will end in January. Birkenstock said it also will forbid all it’s third-party sellers from using Amazon to sell their shoes. The problem, according to Birkenstock, is Amazon does not provide sufficient assistance in combating … Read more