by Lucas Itaborahy | 06/02/2024 | News
Lucas Guaraldo* Pastureland was the area most affected by fires and burn-offs in 2023, accounting for 28% of the entire burned area in the year, according to the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the MapBiomas Fogo network in partnership with and coordinated by IPAM...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 30/01/2024 | News
Lucas Guaraldo* Rural properties with a CAR (Brazilian Rural Environmental Registry) accounted for 75% of all deforestation alerts detected in the Cerrado in 2023, a loss of 879,000 hectares of native vegetation. The data was released on Tuesday by SAD Cerrado...
by Bibiana Garrido | 18/01/2024 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* Leaders from 62 indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon, representing the nine states of the region, took part in the “Course on Climate Change, Carbon and REDD+ in the Indigenous Amazon” and are now multipliers of the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 08/01/2024 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* In an article published in the newspaper O Globo on Saturday, 6, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) defends economic compensation for Amapá and Pará to stop moving forward with oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon basin....
by Sara Leal | 21/12/2023 | Opinion
The Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition called on members of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday (21) to extend the vote on the substitute for Bill 412/2022 (attached to Bill 2.148/2015), which regulates the SBCE (Brazilian Emissions Trading System)....
by Mariana Guths | 19/12/2023 | News
By Mariana Güths* The book “Challenges for the sustainability of Brazilian agriculture: governance, inclusion and innovation” was launched on Monday (18) at UnB (University of Brasilia). The publication has contributions by the executive director of IPAM...
by Bibiana Garrido | 15/12/2023 | Opinion
Betty Irene Moore passed away on Tuesday (12), at the age of 95, surrounded by her family and in peace, according to a statement issued by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, created by Betty and her husband, Gordon, in the 2000s. IPAM (Amazon Environmental...
by Bibiana Garrido | 15/12/2023 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* Emissions from fires not associated with deforestation rose 37% in 2022 compared to 2021: 209 million tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in 2022 compared to 152 million in 2021. This type of fire affects native vegetation without...
by Luiza Melo | 28/11/2023 | News
IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) will have an active participation in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP28, between November 30th and December 12th, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The agenda of IPAM directors and researchers...
