Brazil’s intense summer heat brings a series of significant challenges and impacts. We will explore these issues and discuss the policies and programs implemented to address these problems. Rising summer temperatures can lead to extreme heat waves, especially in Brazil’s North, Northeast, Center-West and Southeast regions. These high temperatures directly affect people’s health. Excessive heat...
The Climate Observatory (OC) is a Brazilian network for articulating global climate change established on March 23, 2002. In addition to discussions with experts on climate change, the observatory promotes the articulation of civil society entities to pressure the government to take decisive actions to mitigate and adapt Brazil to climate change. It currently has...
The carbon market is a reality but must still be legally established in Brazil. Bill 182/2024 should create the Brazilian Emissions Trading System and pave this path.Expectation The proposed model is based on a tool adopted in some of the world’s leading economies, a reference for its ability to stimulate reductions in a country’s emissions....
Climate Scorecard’s 2024 Government Climate Leadership Award is presented to a country official who has done the most to reduce emissions in their country’s government over the past year. Below is a copy of the letter sent to each nominee and why they were chosen to receive this award.Brazil 2024 Climate Scorecard Award: Marina Silva,...
In 2024, the 26 mayors of the capitals and more than 5,500 other cities in the country will be chosen, in addition to representatives of the City Council in each of them. Municipalities with more than 200,000 voters will hold a second round if necessary. The date of the first round will be on the...
Thermal or thermal power plants generate energy based on the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal, and natural gas, or processes involving radioactive materials. This energy generation model is mainly responsible for the emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), in addition to being an expensive alternative that results in high costs on the energy...
Released on November 09, 2023, data from the Deforestation Monitoring Program in the Legal Amazon (Prodes) from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) show that annual deforestation in the Amazon was below 10 thousand km² for the first time since 2018. From August 2022 to July 2023, 9,001 km² of forest were lost, a...
CURITIBACuritiba is the most sustainable city in Latin America and the 14th in the world—the Sustainable Cities ranking published by the Canadian magazine Corporate Knights in 2022 points out this. Corporate Knights measures the environmental sustainability performance of 50 cities around the world. It is an international reference in studies on sustainability and corporate social...
Dear Diplomat André Corrêa do Lago, seclima@itamaraty.gov.br HEAD OF THE BRAZILIAN DELEGATION TO COP28My name is Carlos Alexandre de Oliveira. I am the Country Manager for Brazil for The Climate Scorecard (https://www.climatescorecard.org/), a non-profit organization that monitors the climate policies and programs of the central greenhouse gas-emitting countries.Based on a review of Brazil’s policies, much...
RATING: AThe OC is a coalition of Brazilian civil society organizations collaborating on climate change issues. Founded in 2001, it originally aimed to train people from NGOs – Non-Governmental Organizations on climate. 2013, it entered a new phase: data generation, launching an annual emissions estimate. The SEEG (Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation System) was created as...
