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USA Today
20-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Josh Silveira talks new focus, motivation at middleweight after PFL opening round win
Josh Silveira talks new focus, motivation at middleweight after PFL opening round win Show Caption Hide Caption Josh Silveira, PFL 2025 Week 3 post-fight Josh Silveira advanced to the middleweight semifinals with a win over Mike Shipman. After three straight PFL seasons at light heavyweight, Josh Silveira is trying something new this time around. Silveira (14-4) beat Mike Shipman (17-5) with a unanimous decision this past Friday in the opening round of the 2025 middleweight tournament. He moved on to a semifinal matchup against Fabian Edwards in late June. Silveira came up short in his 205-pound seasons, but started the middleweight portion of his career off right. Silveira spoke to the media following his win at 2025 PFL World Tournament 3, which took place at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla. Watch Silveira's full post-fight interview in the video above courtesy of the PFL.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ahead of Brics, Brazil official slams developed countries for 'no interest' in helping others
A high-ranking Brazilian government official issued a broad criticism of Western developed countries including France on Thursday, in the run-up to a meeting of Brics energy ministers in the South American country's capital. Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira said in a press briefing that the world's developed countries had "no interest" in helping developing nations industrialise, and that Brics members would need to work together to achieve this goal. The minister veered into the diatribe after a question about criticism about Brazil's oil exploration in the equatorial fringe of the Amazon. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. "There is not a single time when I go to France where Le Monde and other French media do not question Brazil's position ... to [insist on] a global energy transition ... and, at the search for oil off the Brazilian coast." "I always respond, very objectively, that it's a shame that France doesn't have oil and has one of the biggest oil companies in the world, even exploring off the Brazilian coast," he said. Silveira, who is chairing the Brics Energy Working Group in Brasilia this week, also excoriated "those who proclaim international interests that are most certainly not ours". The group's meeting is one of many Brics conferences that lay the groundwork for this year's summit in Rio de Janeiro in July. Silveira's comments come at a time when Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is trying to unite the Brics countries on climate finance ahead of the 2025 United Nations Conference of the Parties - more commonly referred to as Cop30. The forum for climate negotiations is set to convene in Brazil in November. Last month, Brazil's Brics negotiator, Ambassador Mauricio Lyrio, said that developing countries were dissatisfied with the outcome of the 2024 climate conference in Azerbaijan, stressing the need to align the Brics countries' priorities at Cop30. "In terms of financing and given the need for a greater volume of climate finance, the results were modest," Lyrio said, adding that at least US$1.3 trillion is needed to fund the Global South's efforts to decarbonise their economies. Brazil has also expressed concern about a possible failure of the climate talks in November. This year's Cop president, Andre Correa do Lago, said the summit was "in exceptional circumstances" and that the results achieved by the negotiators were likely to be "influenced by the decisions of key countries such as the United States, which recently announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement". During Thursday's press conference, Silveira emphasised that the Brics energy group supports a "fair, inclusive and balanced energy transition", using language that tends to run counter to the priorities of US President Donald Trump, a climate science sceptic. Alluding to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro without naming him, Silveira also criticised supporters of the "new politics", who celebrated Trump's electoral victory last year. Efforts to slow climate change "should serve to include people with dignity and not exclude them", Silveira said. "All the Brics countries are very aligned in this regard, making significant investments in this model of energy transition." China, India, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Ethiopia have sent delegations to the in-person talks in Brasilia. Indonesia, which joined the group this year, and Saudi Arabia will participate via video conference. Iran was not involved in the talks, although Brazil expects it to attend the leaders summit in July. Silveira said there was "great enthusiasm among Brics members to achieve the meeting's goals" on energy policy, adding that Brazil would build on the progress made at last year's G20 summit. "For years, there was no consensus document [on energy] at the G20. Last year, we succeeded, and our declaration has already had a practical impact on the energy sector around the globe," Silveira said. "We want to achieve the same with Brics." This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP's Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2025 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2025. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.
South China Morning Post
20-03-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Ahead of Brics, Brazil official slams developed countries for ‘no interest' in helping others
A high-ranking Brazilian government official issued a broad criticism of Western developed countries including France on Thursday, in the run-up to a meeting of Brics energy ministers in the South American country's capital. Advertisement Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira said in a press briefing that the world's developed countries had 'no interest' in helping developing nations industrialise, and that Brics members would need to work together to achieve this goal. The minister veered into the diatribe after a question about criticism about Brazil's oil exploration in the equatorial fringe of the Amazon. 'There is not a single time when I go to France where Le Monde and other French media do not question Brazil's position ... to [insist on] a global energy transition ... and, at the search for oil off the Brazilian coast.' 'I always respond, very objectively, that it's a shame that France doesn't have oil and has one of the biggest oil companies in the world, even exploring off the Brazilian coast,' he said. 03:18 Developing nations blast US$300 billion Cop29 climate deal as not enough Developing nations blast US$300 billion Cop29 climate deal as not enough Silveira, who is chairing the Brics Energy Working Group in Brasília this week, also excoriated 'those who proclaim international interests that are most certainly not ours'.
Reuters
18-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil's government wants lower prices for natgas pipeline and processing, minister says
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 18 (Reuters) - Brazil could cut prices for firms to access gas pipelines and natural gas processing units, in a bid to lower consumer prices, Brazil's Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira said on Tuesday. Silveira was speaking at an event hours before the government released a new study on the subject. The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know about the global energy industry. Sign up here. State-run oil firm Petrobras is the leading operator of pipelines that transport the raw material produced offshore, where most of Brazil's production comes from. It also operates onshore gas processing units. In Brazil, offshore gas producers pay Petrobras and private firms to use their pipelines and processing infrastructure at a cost the government believes is too high, which is passed on to consumers. Without mentioning Petrobras or other energy companies, Silveira said the current system makes gas more expensive and added he was tasked by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to find ways to lower gas prices. The government's proposed changes and estimates on how much it would cut prices for access to gas pipelines and processing units are detailed in a study by Brazil's Energy Research Company (EPE), said Silveira.
CNN
18-02-2025
- Business
- CNN
Brazil to join major oil-exporting nations in OPEC+ group
Brazil's government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, signaling the country's evolution into a major oil state just nine months ahead of hosting the United Nations' annual climate summit. The National Council for Energy Policy's approval came in response to an official invitation in 2023. The group includes the 12 members of OPEC, the longstanding group set up to coordinate oil production to stabilize markets, plus 10 more significant oil-producing nations with Russia by far the largest. Though non-OPEC members agree to cooperate with OPEC nations, Brazil won't have any binding obligation such as production cuts, Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira said at a news conference. Silveira called OPEC+ merely 'a forum for discussing strategies among oil-producing countries. We should not be ashamed of being oil producers. Brazil needs to grow, develop and create income and jobs.' President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began his third term in 2023 touting himself as an environmental defender, and has worked to reduce deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and to protect Indigenous rights. But he has also argued that new oil revenues could finance a transition to green energy. In recent weeks, he has pressed the country's environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. Brazil is the world's seventh-largest oil producer, with about 4.3 million barrels daily, or 4% of the world´s output, according to Energy Information Administration, a US government agency. In 2024, crude oil became the country´s top export product, accounting for 13.3% of Brazil's foreign sales, surpassing soy. The US is the world's largest producer at nearly 22 million barrels daily, with Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in OPEC, at about 11 million barrels. Lula's pursuit of increased oil production has met criticism as Brazil prepares to host the UN climate summit known as COP30 in November. A central push of the annual climate talks has been to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which when burned release greenhouse gases that heat the planet. 'Brazil's entrance to any OPEC body is another sign of the government's setback,' says Suely Araújo, a spokesperson of the Climate Observatory, a network of 133 environmental, civil society and academic groups. Opening up new areas for fossil fuel exploration 'indicates that we are choosing solutions from the past in the face of a huge challenge for the present and the future,' Araujo said.
