by Anna Rodrigues | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Anna Júlia Lopes* The absence of effective public policies and adequate funding has limited the implementation of climate adaptation strategies in the Amazon. According to Patricia Pinho, Research Director at IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), this...
by Anna Rodrigues | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Anna Júlia Lopes* Areas equivalent to twice the size of the state of São Paulo remain undefined in the Legal Amazon. These are the FPNDs (Public Non-Destined Forests), which total 56 million hectares and, according to IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute),...
by Sara Leal | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary, News
Sara Leal* In its 30 years, one of the main marks left by IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) has been and continues to be the promotion of the development of a low carbon economy. The first step was to get closer to family production. It was identified...
by Bibiana Garrido | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
The history of global climate conferences can be traced back to Eco-92, which took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and marked the first collective international effort to debate the climate change that scientists had already identified at the time. Brazil...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Created in the late 1990s as an internationally accepted and useful mechanism for mitigating climate change, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) went through a series of transformations and debates until it reached its final definition...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
The 30-year history of IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) is intertwined with the consolidation of fire research in Brazil. In the institution’s early years, a small group of scientists revolutionized the general understanding of fires in the...
by Karina Sousa | 28/05/2025 | News
Karina Custódio* 20 million hectares of native Cerrado vegetation were affected by fires that started in areas of deforestation, reveals an article published with the participation of IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute). The research was carried out in five...
by Marcelo de Sales Freitas | 23/05/2025 | News
O IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) manifesta pesar pela morte de Sebastião Salgado, aos 81 anos, ocorrida em Paris, França, nesta sexta-feira (23). O renomado fotógrafo se inspirou e traduziu em imagens as belezas, as histórias, os povos e as...
by Anna Rodrigues | 23/05/2025 | News
Anna Júlia Lopes* The president of COP30, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, called on the negotiators who will take part in the meeting in Bonn, Germany, in June, to achieve “concrete results” on the issues that will be dealt with at COP30 in Belém....
