by Bibiana Garrido | 16/03/2026 | Note
The National Climate Change Plan, or Plano Clima, launched by the federal government on Monday 16, has the potential to reorganize the national economy and represents an opportunity for the country to rethink its development model with social justice. This is the...
by Sara Leal | 16/03/2026 | Conservation, News
Sara R. Leal* The Legal Amazon has 9 million hectares that can be legally deforested on private properties, according to analysis by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute). This area is equivalent to the size of the state of Santa Catarina. To curb legal...
by Amazoniar Consultor | 12/03/2026 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira * Safeguarding the Amazon is vital to ensuring food security for billions of people worldwide, says IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) in the second episode of the “Living Library” series by Amazoniar. According to Olivia Zerbini,...
by Sara Leal | 09/03/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
Sara Leal* An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering environmental issues, Paulina Chamorro leads Vozes do Planeta (Voices of the Planet), a pioneering podcast on environmental issues in Brazil. She is one of the founders of the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 06/03/2026 | News
Unprecedented calculation shows that Bolsa Verde directly contributed to a 30% drop in deforestation in participating areas from 2012 to 2015 Deforestation avoided in the period totals 22,600 hectares; emissions avoided amount to 8.3 million tons of carbon dioxide...
by Maria Garcia | 23/02/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
By Maria Garcia* In this 69th edition, the Um Grau e Meio newsletter speaks with Fernando Sampaio to unpack the key points regarding the sustainability (or lack thereof) of Brazilian agribusiness. Fernando is an agronomist who graduated from ESALQ/USP (Luiz de...
by Suellen Nunes | 19/02/2026 | News
Suellen Nunes* The advance of deforestation in the transition region between the Cerrado and the Amazon has caused profound changes in the availability of water in small river basins, increasing the risk of flooding in the rainy season and reducing water availability...
by Sara Leal | 09/02/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
The couple Vanessa Moreira and Alessandro Tenório received an invaluable inheritance from their parents: the knowledge to carry on with efficient production that values and protects the property’s natural resources. Family farmers from Tomé-Açú, in Pará, have...
by Bibiana Garrido | 09/02/2026 | News
By Tainá Andrade* This week’s edition of Um Grau e Meio talks to Cynthia Picolo, executive director of LAPIN (Laboratório de Políticas Públicas e Internet) about the impacts of AI and data centers in Brazil. Picolo also coordinates working groups for...
