by Sara Leal | 02/02/2023 | News
By Lays Ushirobira* When talking about reducing deforestation in the Amazon, it is common to hear the false argument that this would be a barrier to agribusiness, a sector that accounted for 47.6% of Brazilian exports in 2022, according to the Ministry of Agriculture....
by Sara Leal | 01/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the new President of Brazil raised expectations that Free Trade Agreement negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur (EU-Mercosur agreement) will resume. A free trade agreement between the European...
by Sara Leal | 26/01/2023 | News
The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published on January 27 in the journal ‘Science’. The paper was led by an...
by Sara Leal | 19/01/2023 | News
To reduce deforestation in the Amazon, it is necessary to implement and strengthen conservation measures not only in public lands – where 51% of total deforestation in the region occurs, as shown in the first episode of the new cycle of Amazoniar – but also in private...
by Sara Leal | 05/01/2023 | News
Deforestation on public lands is one of the greatest challenges in the Amazon: according to Ane Alencar, director of Science at IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), 51% of deforestation in the region in recent years has occurred in areas that, in other...
