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...
Not just about trade
This document summarises the key themes that emerged from a series of workshops and interviews about the FTA with representatives from local organisations, collectives, and Indigenous and traditional communities in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It provides valuable insight into the positions and preoccupations of community members across Mercosur.
Isolated on a Knife-Edge: Risks Imposed to Isolated Indigenous Peoples
Brazil is home to the largest number of isolated indigenous peoples in South America (Amorim 2016; IACHR, 2013). The National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (FUNAI) recognizes 114 registries of the occurrence of isolated Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon biome and...
Efforts to Avoid Corruption and Harassment
The Amazon Environmental Research Institue - IPAM carries out the following financial monitoring actions to avoid default and financial irregularities. Read the...
Amazon in Flames 9 – The new and alarming level of deforestation in the Amazon
Deforestation of forests in the Amazon has reached a new and alarming level in the last three years. The loss of forest between 2019 and 2021 exceeded 10,000 km² per year, a number 56.6% higher than the annual average of the previous period - 2016 to 2018. Although...
Executive Summary – second Technical Dialogue on Sustainability and Traceability of the beef and leather chains
Executive summary of the second Technical Dialogue on Sustainability and Traceability of the beef and leather chains, held on 20 April 2022 with the theme: access to technology for the sustainability.
Amazon in flames 8 – Deforestation, fire and ranching on public lands
Public lands, which include indigenous lands (ILs), conservation units (CUs) and undesignated public land, occupy about 276 million hectares in the Amazon biome - if it were a European country, it would only be smaller in territory than Russia. These areas are...