Updates on Brazil's environmental impact — because what happens here affects the planet.
Brazil Climate
Oct 2, 2025
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3 min read
🔥 The real price of gas
Brazil is positioning itself as a global climate leader, but is simultaneously locking itself into an environmentally perilous fossil gas expansion that directly contradicts its renewable ambitions.
Brazil Climate
Sep 25, 2025
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4 min read
💧 The future of Petrobras
Experts warn about the financial and climactic risk of Petrobras doubling down on fossil fuels, laying out a roadmap for the state-controlled firm to lead Brazil’s energy transition.
Brazil Climate
Sep 18, 2025
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4 min read
📈 Green mirage?
The ICO2 index on Brazil’s main stock exchange encourages companies to report emissions, but it has some huge blind spots.
Brazil Climate
Sep 11, 2025
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3 min read
🪓 ‘Legal’ deforestation
Today is National Cerrado Day, celebrating Brazil’s vast, biodiverse, but often overlooked tropical savanna.
Brazil Climate
Sep 4, 2025
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1 min read
🌳 Beyond planting trees
The appearance of an endangered Ornate Hawk-Eagle in a fragment of Atlantic Forest has served as a powerful symbol of restoration efforts ongoing in Brazil.
Brazil Climate
Aug 28, 2025
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4 min read
⛏️ After the raids, before the returns
Federal crackdowns may drive out illegal miners, but without state support, indigenous peoples face renewed invasions — and the lure of fast cash continues to divide communities.
Brazil Climate
Aug 21, 2025
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3 min read
🩸 Blood on the land
The 2024 murder of Pataxó leader Nega Pataxó underscores how the controversial time frame law and the rise of alleged landowner militias are fueling a surge in rural bloodshed.
Brazil Climate
Aug 14, 2025
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4 min read
✒️ Lula tames ‘Devastation Bill’
Despite making a raft of vetoes to the controversial ‘Devastation Bill,’ one risky concession from President Lula is set to considerably weaken Brazil’s environmental licensing framework.
Brazil Climate
Aug 7, 2025
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4 min read
🔫 Red Command, green hell
Drug gangs have seized control over large swaths of the Brazilian rainforest.
Brazil Climate
Jul 31, 2025
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3 min read
🥬 Climate change is cooking your groceries
Higher temperatures are impacting agriculture, driving grocery costs up. And higher food prices increase public dissatisfaction and cause political disruptions.
Brazil Climate
Jul 24, 2025
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4 min read
📅 25 years of conservation, at risk?
Brazil's national conservation system has turned 25 years old, but it is under threat from persistent political pressures and the ongoing climate emergency.
Brazil Climate
Jul 17, 2025
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3 min read
⛽ A bridge to transition, or detour?
Biomethane is one of Brazil’s bets for the energy transition, harnessing and capturing this particularly potent greenhouse gas.
Brazil Climate
Jul 10, 2025
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3 min read
🛰️ Deforestation dip? Don’t count on it
Partial data suggests that Brazil’s all-important 2024-25 annual Amazon deforestation figure could show an increase, instead of the promised reduction.
Brazil Climate
Jul 3, 2025
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4 min read
🩻 Brazil’s emissions X-ray
With Brazil’s environmental credentials under pressure, we look at how much greenhouse gas Brazil emits, and how its emissions profile compares to other countries around the world
Brazil Climate
Jun 26, 2025
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4 min read
🛣️ From Baku to Belém, via Bonn
Negotiators make timid progress at the UN climate meetings in Bonn, which will lay the groundwork for much of the topics to be discussed at COP30 in Belém
Brazil Climate
Jun 19, 2025
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5 min read
🛢️ Drilling rights, climate wrongs
Despite protests, Tuesday’s auction saw the area of the Amazon River Mouth basin sold to oil companies increase by 285%.
