This week, FIESP, arranged a successful event with 700 people celebrating that it is five years since the development of AEO Brazil started. The event was organized in Sao Paulo.
AEO Brazil is the Trusted Trader Programme of the future, already here! I am extremely proud to be mentioned in this context, knowing what AEO Brazil means to the Brazilian foreign trade and overall economy.
It was the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), a Brazilian industry entity affiliated with the National Industry Confederation (CNI) that arranged the event.
AEO Brazil has delivered fantastic results for Brazil and Brazilian trade.
It is really amazing to see the developments for AEO Brazil since we started five years ago.
Thank you for the wonderful feedback of acknowledgement from more than 100 people on LindkedIn and other social media platforms. It is great not to be forgotten in Brazil.
I feel proud, honored and happy to have been part of this journey. I know where we started.
So many people have contributed to this amazing trade platform for Brazil. Change at its best. What a success.
The enourmous positive feedback from the Brazilian business environment, both from trade organizations and individual AEO companies, has been outstanding.
My great friends and brothers-in-arms, John Mein and Elmo Braz Zenobio Jr, also attended and spoke at the 5 yesrs celebration event.
Elmo Braz Zenobio Jr was the assistant Project Manager all through the AEO Brazil project and he has since then moved on to higher managenent positions within Receita Federal (The Federal Revenue Authority).
John Mein is Executive Secretary of Aliança Procomex, a leading trade organization in Brazil and South America that was our KGH partner in the support of Receita Federal for the design, development and implementation of AEO Brazil from 2014 to 2017, woth financial support from CNI, the Brazilian Federation of Industry.
Today, AEO Brazil the leading AEO/Trusted Trader Programme in the world, introducing landmark innovations as Integrated AEO for Single Government AEO Status and Coordinated Border Management – including agriculture, new benefits, specific SME tiering and many more new features.
The AEO Brazil programme has contributed to the development of the Brazil economy and it has generated multimillion USD savings for Brazilian business with more to come. All measured and publicly presented by independent institutions and business associations.
A study released recently by the National Confederation of Industries in Brazil indicates that the benefits provided to certified AEO companies have already enabled them to save 1.5 billion US dollars, and that these economies will grow even more in the coming years, reaching 17 billion US dollars by 2030. This money is expected to be ploughed back into the companies’ businesses, allowing them to expand and improve – leading, in particular, to the creation of more jobs. The study also states that, by 2030, the Programme will have added more than 50 billion US dollars to Brazil’s gross domestic product.
Congratulations AEO Brazil! 5 years already! It has been great honor to work with all Brazilian friends on this development project! Thank you Ernani, Ronaldo, Jackson, Jose Carlos, Fabiano, Virginia, Elmo, Fabiano, Elaine, Adalton, John and many others.
Today UK holds a General Election (GE Day).
The campaigning has for sox weeks been focused on Brexit, so it is easy to name this also a Brexit election. GE Day is also B Day – as in Brexit Day,
On one side the Conservatives, clearly advocating an organized Brexit with the Withdrawal Agreement Bill voted through a new Parliament before the holiday season and having UK leave on January 31st 2020, with a eleven months long transition period until December 31st 2020.
On the other side several parties with different Brexit proposals; Labour, Liberal Democrats and SNP.
The election polls shows today that it will be a very close election today, with either a small Conservative majority or anither hung Parliament.
A total of 650 parliamentary constituencies are being contested in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with polling stations open from 7am until 10pm GMT.
The total electorate is around 46 million and there will be 40,000 polling stations.
Unusual locations include several pubs, a hair salon, a laundrette, a chip shop and a windmill.
When all the votes are counted after the polls close, a party needs 326 seats for a majority in the Commons without relying on support from smaller parties.
In 12 hours we will have an indication, in 16 hours we will know.
Europe and the rest of the world is waiting.
Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2019 on Wednesday. She is the youngest person to have ever received the accolade.
Thunberg, 16, was lauded by Time for starting an environmental campaign in August 2018 which became a global movement, initially skipping school and camping out in front of the Swedish parliament to demand action.
“In the 16 months since, she has addressed heads of state at the UN, met with the pope, sparred with the president of the United States and inspired 4 million people to join the global climate strike on September 20, 2019, in what was the largest climate demonstration in human history,” the magazine said.
“Margaret Atwood compared her to Joan of Arc. After noticing a hundredfold increase in its usage, lexicographers at Collins Dictionary named Thunberg’s pioneering idea, climate strike, the word of the year,” Time said.
Thunberg, who turns 17 in January, continues to beat the drum, saying in Madrid last week that the voices of climate strikers are being heard but politicians are still not taking action.
The activist addressed the latest round of UN climate talks in Madrid Wednesday morning, bluntly criticizing world leaders for “negotiating loopholes” and using PR to make it appear they are achieving bold climate targets.
But the reluctant celebrity, who has been chased by cameras and attracted large crowds at the Madrid conference, has urged the press to hear from other activists and indigenous youth instead.
The former vice-president Al Gore, a longtime environmentalist, said the magazine made a “brilliant choice”.
“Greta embodies the moral authority of the youth activist movement demanding that we act immediately to solve the climate crisis. She is an inspiration to me and to people across the world,” Gore said.
Other nominees for person of the year included Donald Trump and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress.
Source: The Guardian
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