Rating D (Falling Behind) Brazil holds 12% of the planet’s freshwater reserves, making up 53% of water resources in South America. Bodies of water define a large part of the country’s borders – there are 83 border and cross-border rivers, in addition to hydrographic basins and aquifers. The transboundary river basins occupy 60% of...
Progress Report Mid-Way 2023 Rating D (Falling Behind) Brazilian emissions of greenhouse gases have grown by 40% since the year the country decided to take action to fight them. The “lost decade” of the fight against global warming in the country is the subject of the tenth report analyzing Brazilian emissions by SEEG, the System...
The idea of forming a coalition of Brazilian civil society organizations to discuss climate change came up in 2001 in Salinópolis, on the coast of Pará, during a dinner. It was a break from an annual meeting of the USAID (the US government’s cooperation agency), and four environmentalists taking part in the meeting took advantage...
At the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in November ‘21, Brazil announced the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. The Brazilian government expects that, in 2050, the country will not release carbon emissions into the atmosphere. It will become carbon neutral at that time.The Ministry of the Environment presented...
Despite having a relatively clean energy and electricity matrix, Brazil has a strong structure of fossil fuel subsidies, which stimulates the country’s production and consumption of oil, natural gas, and mineral coal.A survey by the Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (INESC), released on November 16, 2022, at COP27 in Egypt, shows that Brazil spent BRL 118.2...
Yanomami women and children: extraction of minerals within the Indigenous Land not only contaminates rivers and people but also destroys forests and affects the indigenous way of life, imposing restrictions on movement within their lands INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL, THE YANOMANI TRAGEDY AND THE PEOPLE’S CONTRIBUTION TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE The Indians are a...
According to the Climate Trace inventory, Brazil’s agriculture sector emitted 2021 1.35 billion tons of CO2e20, which corresponds to 9.8% of the total global emissions of the sector. Enteric ferment represents 79.11% of the agricultural sector’s emissions.Compared to the data from Brazil’s Climate Observatory, a national source with reliable accuracy shows that in 2021 the...
Looking Back 2022: Brazil’s Presidential Election/ Looking Forward 2023: Promised Efforts to Cleanup the Amazon The 2022 presidential elections were undoubtedly the most important event of the year and its impact toward mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.On November 18, 2022, Brazil, along with Russia and the United States, was highlighted as a “dishonourable mention” in...
With more than a century of use and with a large installed capacity, the electric energy sector in Brazil has a complex network of transmission lines that runs through Brazil, allowing a family’s refrigerator in the interior of São Paulo to work with energy generated by a hydroelectric plant in the north of the country....
The Climate Observatory, a network that brings together 77 civil society organizations dedicated to discussing climate change in Brazil, released updated information on greenhouse gas emissions on 11/01/22. The data are part of the 10th edition of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation System (SEEG) and were published five days before COP27, the World Climate Conference,...
