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...
Amazon on Fire 6: deforestation and fire in Indigenous lands
This technical note looks closely at the dynamics of deforestation and fire in Indigenous lands (LIs) in the Amazon between 2016 and 2020, to understand how the recent spike in these rates is reflected in these areas, and how illegal activities, such as...
The Air is Unbearable – Health Impacts of Deforestation-Related Fires in the Brazilian Amazon
Sprawling over nearly half of Brazil’s territory and encompassing nine of its states, the Amazon region is home to over 20 million Brazilians. Since 1985 – when the government began monitoring deforestation in the Amazon – more than half a million square kilometers...
They Are not Numbers. They Are Lives! COVID-19 threatens indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon
The scenario of infection is severe. The mortality revealed among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon today is the harbinger of a situation that can be catastrophic if an urgent and adequate strategy for treating these populations is not implemented within these...
The Amazon in Flames: Deforestation and fire in the Amazon during the COVID-19 Pandemic
A deforested area of at least 4,500 square kilometers in the Brazilian Amazon, three times larger than the city of São Paulo, Brazil, is ready to burn. The result of the sum of what was felled in the first four months of last year—still not burned. This fallen...
The Amazon in Flames: Fire and deforestation in 2019 and what’s to come in 2020
With the most intense season of deforestation in the Amazon approaching, it is time to evaluate what happened in the region in 2019. It is also time to put strategies in place to combat deforestation, which in the first three months of this year increased...
Amazon – land tenure
Map with land tanure distribution in the Legal Amazon - protected areas, private properties, undesignated public lands, rural settlements - based in 2018 data.