Brazil’s 2024 fires drove historic emission levels
The aim of this policy brief was thus to estimate gross greenhouse gas emissions caused by the 2024 fires in Brazil and highlight the relevance of this component in the country’s emission profile. To this end, we disaggregated the analysis of fire-affected areas by...
CICM Bulletin | 3rd Edition
The Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC, in Portuguese) monitors national and international debates on climate change. It disseminates studies conducted by indigenous peoples on climate change to promote traditional knowledge. This newsletter aims to...
Leveraging carbon instruments for financial sustainability in a soy landscape initiative
The document is part of the Sustainable Landscapes Initiative in Western Mato Grosso, which aims to increase sustainable agricultural production in the state while ensuring the conservation of native vegetation and the inclusion of small farmers and traditional...
Fires in the Cerrado in 2024: a snapshot from January to September
The Cerrado biome is of extreme ecological and economic importance, playing a crucial role in water regulation (Sawyer et al. 2017), feeding the country's main river basins, and is the tropical savanna with the highest biodiversity in the world (Myers et al. 2000,...
Amazon Fires in 2024: a point off the curve?
In 2024, the Amazon faces one of the most severe droughts ever recorded, exacerbating an already alarming environmental crisis in the region. The combination of extremely low rainfall levels, elevated temperatures, and uncontrolled use of fire linked to...
Fires in Brazil in 2024: the land portrait of the burned area in the biomes
The year 2024 has been marked by an intensification of fires and wildfires in Brazilian biomes, particularly in the Amazon, the Cerrado, and the Pantanal. The use of fire, whether accidental or intentional, continues to be one of the main factors of environmental...
20 years at Tanguro Field Station
For two decades, this research station has stood at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest as a perfect natural laboratory to study the changing biome.