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...
Scars Of Mining In Indigenous Lands Of The Brazilian Amazon
Indigenous Lands are territories inhabited by multiple indigenous societies that express their worldviews (Little, 2002). These areas, demarcated across the entire national territory, are intended to safeguard the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples (Eloy...
Spatiotemporal Scenarios for Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon
Researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) created, in partnership with the World Bank, a platform where it is possible to predict the risk of deforestation and estimate the future deforested areas in the states of the Legal Amazon. The...
Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...
Tropical forest degradation remains an overlooked driver of global warming
Researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and other organizations presented during COP28, held in Dubai, a policy brief for decision makers with data and recommendations for combating forest degradation. The document highlights the impact of...
Traceability initiatives in the beef and leather value chains in Brazil
This document presents an overview of the cattle traceability arrangements in Brazil from calf to slaughterhouse. It is part of Dialogues between the European Union and Brazil on the Beef and Leather Value Chains, which has brought together importers, retailers,...
Interview about the EU-Mercosur Agreement with Ana Paula Santos Souza from FVPP (Live, Produce and Preserve Foundation)
Interview with Ana Paula Santos Souza from FVPP (Live, Produce and Preserve Foundation), about the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur.