Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions
The transformation of its largest private port has lessons for the country’s aspirations
Visitors to the Port of Açu may struggle to determine its industrial nature. No warehouses or piles of containers block the view of the Atlantic Ocean. Swathes of restored restinga, a local broadleaf forest, hug the shoreline, which bustles with loggerhead turtles. A different story is suggested only by the gigantic ships that dot the sea’s horizon.
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