by WP IPAM | 16/02/2023 | News
By Lays Ushirobira* When one looks at the exponential growth of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon in recent years, it is hard to believe that the country was once a reference for environmental conservation. But the fact is that Brazil was one of the pioneers...
by WP IPAM | 14/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* “There needs to be dialogue, agreement, consensus and the necessary guarantees for our people. Our present and our future depend on it”, says Ana Romero, from the Indigenous Youth Union of Paraguay, about the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement...
by Sara Leal | 08/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* “You have to consider, above all, life. Because from different territories that they [European Union] will acquire products, many people died and are still dying for the greed of an unbridled development without thinking about the climate balance, social...
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...
by Sara Leal | 03/01/2023 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira* Brazil ended its participation in the COP 27 (27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) with the urgency to stop deforestation in order to comply with the global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas...
