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Tragedy in Javari has the fingerprint of Brazilian necropolitics

Note of condolence for the murder of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips

Comissão do Senado coloca em pauta projeto que amplia anistia para quem desmatou reserva legal

Projeto amplia em quatro anos marco temporal para a anistia de quem desmatou reserva legal. Pesquisadoras do Climate Policy chamam proposta de “injustificada”

Flyovers confirm that southern Amazonas is the new deforestation frontier in Brazil

Images taken last week between Porto Velho (RO) and Lábrea (AM) show the widespread devastation in one of the most conserved areas of the Amazon Forest

Bill that militarizes environmental inspection gets push in Chamber

Salles wants to allocate funds from a possible agreement with the US to create a police force in the Amazon and insulate Ibama

Brazil should cut emissions by 81% by 2030, OC says

Civil society's proposal for the second national goal under the Paris Agreement is to limit net emissions to 400 million tons of CO2e, ending deforestation.

Civil society takes Bolsonaro to the court on climate protection

Organizations, the Brazilian association of public prosecutors and parties move three lawsuits against the government for allowing illegal timber exports and freezing climate funds.

19 facts that marked the climate in 2019

Follow the retrospective of an intense year of news about the climate

In defence of democracy

A letter by Brazilian civil society groups

Bolsonaro’s Davos speech is hard to reconcile with reality of his government

Statement by Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Brazilian Climate Observatory

Brazil gives up on bid to host COP25: statement by the Climate Observatory

  BRASÍLIA, 11-27-2018 – The U-turn of the Brazilian government on its offer to host COP25 is regrettable, but not surprising. Given that a few weeks ago the Temer administration celebrated the bid to host the conference as a sign of “the country’s global leadership on sustainable development issues”, the reason for the turnaround probably […]

Choice of Ernesto Araújo as foreign minister puts Brazilian environmental leadership at risk

Nota da coordenação do Observatório do Clima sobre a nomeação no Itamaraty

Wherever threats may be, we shall be the resistance

A statement by the Brazilian Climate Observatory on Jair Bolsonaro’s election

Temer postpones ratification of climate deal

Ceremoy had been scheduled for this Monday and was re-scheduled for September 12th; now Brazil may not be the first major emitter to ratify the Paris Agreement, as meant by the government

Brazil will ratify Paris Agreement on Monday

South American country is expected to be the first major carbon emitter to formally join the deal against climate change; government's goal is to move ahead of other big polluters such as China

Temer shall deposit ratification next month

Senate passes climate agreement in a speedy session, opening the way to presidential sanction ahead of the UN ratification event in September; government prepares implementation plan

Brazil submits its goals for Paris

País propõe reduzir em 43% suas emissões de gases de efeito estufa até 2030, com expansão de energias renováveis. Ponto fraco são as medidas de preservação e recuperação de florestas

Brazil can limit emissions to 1 billion tons – and profit

BONN, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 – Today the Brazilian Climate Observatory (Observatório do Clima, OC), a network of 37 civil society organizations, launched a proposal to the Brazilian government demonstrating how the nation can limit its annual greenhouse-gas emissions to 1 billion tons by 2030. Brazil, the world’s seventh greenhouse-gas emitter, has yet to submit its […]

OC suggests a climate target for Brazil

The world's first NCD proposal by civil society organizations calls for an upper limit of 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide in Brazil by 2030, aims at carbon neutrality by 2050, and explains how to get there from here

The Increase in Deforestation in the Amazon in 2013: a point off the curve or out of control?

Environmental organizations analyze the increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013 and present recommendations to the Brazilian government for reversing that tendency

Brazil’s lost opportunity on real engagement with future climate action

At Climate Summit, President Dilma Rousseff restated Brazil’s past and current actions, but said nothing about the future of the fight against climate change in Brazil.

Brazil starts COP20 in a more fragile position than in previous climate conferences

Registering high emission rates despite low economic growth, Brazil starts COP20 in a more fragile position than in previous climate conferences.

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