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Paula Scheidt Manoel

Paula Scheidt is a Brazilian journalist specializing in climate change and sustainability. She is responsible for the editorial concept of CarbonoBrasil Portal – www.carbonobrasil.com, a journalistic website focusing on climate change, carbon markets, clean energies and sustainable development, where she has been working as editor since 2004. She lives in Florianópolis, Brazil, and has a Bachelor’s diploma in Journalism from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Scheidt is currently doing academic research on environmental news for two local newspapers as part of the Master’s degree in Urbanism, Architecture and History of Cities that she started in 2008 at UFSC.

Posts by Paula Scheidt Manoel

COP15 fails to seal a global climate deal

By: Paula Scheidt Manoel on January 4th, 2010

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All the Danish efforts to sell Copenhagen as the city of hope was not enough to guarantee a global deal at the end of the UN Climate Change Conference, billed by many as event of the century.

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Tuvalu demands cuts to maintain its existence

By: Paula Scheidt Manoel on December 18th, 2009

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Small island state Tuvalu emerged at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen asking for more ambitious commitments, to guarantee its continued existence.

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Money still absent says Brazil

By: Paula Scheidt Manoel on December 18th, 2009

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Quoting the COP 15 president that said on Monday ‘no money, no deal’, the chief negotiator of the Brazilian delegation, ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, said the finance help from rich to poor countries is too small and without any real commitment, which is still an obstacle to getting a climate deal.

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