May 10: Pope Benedict XVI urges tens of thousands of young Brazilian Catholics packing the Pacaembu stadium in São Paulo to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and tells them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end."[16]
Live Earth gets underway with concerts in Sydney, Johannesburg, New Jersey, Rio de Janeiro, Antarctica, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, London, Hamburg, Washington, D.C., and Rome.[24]
August 6: Mexico and Brazil sign an agreement on developing technology for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation, involving a co-operation between Pemex and Petrobras.[38]
December 2: Brazil starts free-to-air digital television transmissions in São Paulo. However, broadcasting companies must transmit signals in both analogue and digital formats until June 2016.[48][49]
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