Amazonia on Fire: air quality in 2024 and 2025
Filipe V. de Arruda, Ane A. C. Alencar, Newton C. Monteiro, Vera L. S. Arruda, Ana Carolina M. Pessoa, João P. F. M. Ribeiro, Marcia Macedo, Luiz Felipe M. Martenexen, Renata da Costa, Antônio Willian F. de Melo, Ray P. Alves, Wallace V. Silva, Vanessa S. Ribeiro...
CONSERV: financial mechanisms to prevent legal deforestation and promote sustainable agriculture in Brazil
In the face of growing pressure to increase agricultural production, reducing legal deforestation driven by agriculture requires thoughtful economic interventions that are both attractive to participating landowners and economically viable in terms of long-term...
Brazil’s 2024 fires drove historic emission levels
The aim of this policy brief was thus to estimate gross greenhouse gas emissions caused by the 2024 fires in Brazil and highlight the relevance of this component in the country’s emission profile. To this end, we disaggregated the analysis of fire-affected areas by...
Diagnosis of Fire Management in the States of the Legal Amazon
The Legal Amazon, which covers more than 5 million km², brings together three biomes (the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal) and faces serious challenges such as deforestation and fires, which are aggravated by climate change. In the Amazon rainforest, fire is the...
CICM Bulletin | 3rd Edition
The Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC, in Portuguese) monitors national and international debates on climate change. It disseminates studies conducted by indigenous peoples on climate change to promote traditional knowledge. This newsletter aims to...
Leveraging carbon instruments for financial sustainability in a soy landscape initiative
The document is part of the Sustainable Landscapes Initiative in Western Mato Grosso, which aims to increase sustainable agricultural production in the state while ensuring the conservation of native vegetation and the inclusion of small farmers and traditional...
Fires in the Cerrado in 2024: a snapshot from January to September
The Cerrado biome is of extreme ecological and economic importance, playing a crucial role in water regulation (Sawyer et al. 2017), feeding the country's main river basins, and is the tropical savanna with the highest biodiversity in the world (Myers et al. 2000,...