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“Oil companies focus on profit, without measuring the consequences”
One of the country's leading experts on climate science, Paulo Artaxo, president of IPAM's Board of Directors, points to the progress made at COP30, but emphasizes the urgent need for a debate on fossil fuels.
Land-grabbing and illegal mining bring wildfires and deforestation to Indigenous lands in the Amazon
The number of illegal registries as private properties in these areas jumped 75% between 2016 and 2020 years, according to a new study by IPAM.
OCAA Webinars debate on improvements to the Mercosur and European Union agreement
Second episode of the series promoted by the Observatory presents a study that proposes improvements to the chapter “Trade and Sustainable Development” suggested in the pact.
Amazonian municipalities dominate carbon emissions in Brazil
First municipal greenhouse gas mapping of the country shows that seven of the ten largest emitters in Brazil are in the North region; land use change is the biggest challenge.
Deforestation in illegally occupied areas explodes in two years
The area felled in 2019 and 2020 on land illegally registered as private property in non-reserved public forests in the Amazon grew by 50% compared to previous years.
About 17.5% of Brazil has burned at least once in the last 20 years
Most of the fire reaches native vegetation. The new data is part of MapBiomas Fogo, an initiative that consolidated information on the area burned each year, from 2000 to 2019.
Deforestation in the Amazon grows for the third consecutive year
30% of the deforestation took place in undesignated public forests, that is, public forestlands not allocated by the federal or state governments to a specific tenure.