Beyond counting carbon, adaptation is set to shape the future generations of climate action. And COP30 in Belém could kickstart that shift.
On the eve of COP30, participants are beginning to roll out their flagship initiatives to be unveiled at the conference — in finance, governance and livestock traceability.
Kicking off our COP30 coverage, we look at this week’s meetings in Brasília: the last chance for negotiations before the big day.
Touted as a game-changer for agribusiness, the 933-kilometer railway could also deepen Amazon deforestation and threaten traditional communities — and its economics may not add up either.
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.
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.
The ICO2 index on Brazil’s main stock exchange encourages companies to report emissions, but it has some huge blind spots.
Today is National Cerrado Day, celebrating Brazil’s vast, biodiverse, but often overlooked tropical savanna.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drug gangs have seized control over large swaths of the Brazilian rainforest.
Higher temperatures are impacting agriculture, driving grocery costs up. And higher food prices increase public dissatisfaction and cause political disruptions.
Brazil's national conservation system has turned 25 years old, but it is under threat from persistent political pressures and the ongoing climate emergency.
Biomethane is one of Brazil’s bets for the energy transition, harnessing and capturing this particularly potent greenhouse gas.
Partial data suggests that Brazil’s all-important 2024-25 annual Amazon deforestation figure could show an increase, instead of the promised reduction.
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
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
Despite protests, Tuesday’s auction saw the area of the Amazon River Mouth basin sold to oil companies increase by 285%.
The Brazilian government hopes to attract big bucks with a new tax incentive policy for data centers, but it has completely ignored the environmental risks of these projects.
The Lula government promised security improvements in the Javari Valley indigenous land, where organized crime runs rampant and Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered three years ago. But local leaders say the situation is just as bad as it was in 2022
How the story of one endemic parrot can hold the key to preserving one of Brazil’s most important and biodiverse biomes
A bill approved by the Senate waives the need for environmental licensing for a number of potentially destructive endeavors. Environmentalists call the move one of the biggest setbacks in recent history
A report from satellite monitoring platform MapBiomas shows that deforestation either fell sharply or remained stable in all of Brazil’s biomes. And the Cerrado remains the country’s hotspot for vegetation loss
