Leading Country Climate NGOs: Climate Observatory, Brazil
The Climate Observatory (OC) is a Brazilian network for articulating global climate change established on March 23, 2002. In addition to discussions with experts... Read more.
Brazil’s New Emissions Trading System – Expectations versus Reality
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... Read more.
Brazil 2024 Climate Scorecard Award: Marina Silva
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... Read more.
2024 Municipal Elections in 5,000 Cities in Brazil
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... Read more.
Thermoelectric Plans in Brazil Help Meet Energy Needs but Raise Emissions
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.... Read more.
Brazil Increases its Paris Agreement NDC
Released on November 09, 2023, data from the Deforestation Monitoring Program in the Legal Amazon (Prodes) from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe)... Read more.
Brazil: Model Community Climate Mitigation Programs
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... Read more.
Brazil: COP 28 Recommendations for Strengthening Country Climate Ambition
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... Read more.
Brazil’s Climate Observatory has been Producing Reliable Estimates of Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Since 2013
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... Read more.
Brazil’s Approach that Emphasizes Carbon Sequestration
B Rating The agricultural sector’s vulnerability to climate change requires effective and urgent adaptation strategies that could increase the resilience of... Read more.