Brazil’s president has slashed forest and indigenous protections in his first 100 days. As a major importer of soya and beef, the EU should check his power.
… EU must defend Brazil's indigenous people Nicole Polsterer … | 17th April 2019 News EU Indigneous People Brazil Thought Leaders amazon_indigenous_kate_fisher_800.jpg Brazil’s president has slashed forest and …
Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.
… approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal. September offered … for the Amazon, according to new data from Brazil’s State Secretariat for the Environment … are a relief to environmentalists after Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s shocking …
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
… Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern' … Saes EnvJustice | 14th March 2019 News Brazil Mining Disaster Dam Thought Leaders … behind a recent massive mining incident in Brazil. The failure of their Brumadinho …
Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.
… Para state had, in a show of solidarity with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, reportedly … has been squarely placed on the shoulders of Brazil’s new far-right president, who is a … The vast majority of the deforestation in Brazil and other Amazon states has been due to …
UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation.
… of Investigative Journalism . Marfrig, a Brazilian meat company that has supplied … make.” In January, inspectors from Ibama, Brazil’s environmental watchdog, found cattle … by the largest number of forest fires in Brazil this year. The land where the cattle …
Satisfaction was at an all-time low in large capitalist democracies including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.
… democracies including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. Dissatisfaction … including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The data set … largest democracy (Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil) to openly entertain nostalgia for …
After a second extra day of climate talks in Lima, an agreement has been cobbled together. Deadlines have been set for the world to come up with plans to curb emissions and adapt to climate change - but has been no progress on the key divisive issues, and the prospects of an effective mew treaty in Paris next year remain remote.
… The new climate reality: China, India, Brazil are now big-scale emitters The talks … world's biggest polluter, and countries like Brazil and India are fast catching up, the …
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations, writes WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO today, International Forests Day. This mis-definition seriously harms real forests and forest peoples as it justifies the clearance of real forests and their replacement with cash crops of trees.
… see if the FAO definition is being used, is Brazil, the country with the highest forest … In its 2010 [4] publication ' Forests of Brazil ' the Brazilian Forest Service (SBF), under the …
There is a scandal here...policy makers are calling vast monocultures ‘forest restoration’.
… Together, those countries, which include Brazil, India and China, have already … natural forests, at 14.6 million hectares; Brazil has pledged 19 million hectares of new …
Prospects for a global climate deal under the UN are receding fast, writes Assaad Razzouk, as the Green Climate Fund is short-changed by donor nations. But there's still plenty to hope for with a private sector that's stepping up to the mark, and fast-growing decentralised climate action.
… But recent moves by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) … (Chile, Mexico, large economic regions in Brazil); Asia (Kazakhstan, South Korea, …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their latest report, issued today at the UN climate talks in Lima, shows exceptional heat and flooding in many parts of the world.
… Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil in October. Notable cold waves were … southern Bolivia and parts of south east Brazil. The heavy rain led to flooding on the … Parts of eastern and some areas of central Brazil are in a state of severe drought with …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
… of France, Algeria, Costa Rica, Japan, Brazil and the European Union agricultural … as possible." Prof Sergio Sauer, formerly Brazil's National Rapporteur for Human Rights … it is a sustainable livelihood. "In Brazil we have the National Association of …
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect on indigenous peoples, writes Sarina Kidd. First the miners bring disease, deforestation and even murder. Then long after they have gone, communities are left to suffer deadly mercury poisoning. Now the UN has been called on to intervene.
… further tests will have to be carried out. In Brazil, new statistics reveal alarming rates … World Health Organisation (WHO). Although the Brazilian government has demarcated the … miners were later convicted of genocide. The Brazilian authorities have known about the …
The amazon fires must give rise to action from individuals, corporations and governments.
… much of the power of invasive agribusiness. Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation has a … In the eloquent words of Elaine Brum, Brazilian journalist and novelist: “Bolsonaro … forge communities like those established by Brazil’s escaped slaves.” So what can you do? …
People power was at the forefront of UN talks on an global treaty for transnational corporations and human rights last week in Geneva, writes Amelia Collins. The fact that so many countries - led by South Africa and Ecuador - voiced their unequivocal support for legally binding rules, sets exactly the right tone for an ambitious and far-reaching negotiation.
… We also stood together in solidarity with the Brazilian people challenging the current illegitimate government in Brazil." There is still a way to go. The … communities overwhelmed by the power of the Brazilian mining giant Vale, Erika sees first …
Standard Chartered's sponsorship of Liverpool FC is a cynical attempt to buy a social license to profit from fossil fuel finance.
… roots and global appeal: Alisson Becker (Brazil), Virgil Van Dijk (Netherlands), Joel Matip (Cameroon), Fabinho (Brazil), Naby Keita (Guinea), Sadio Mane …
It' a perfect win-win solution for World Food Day, writes Kirtana Chandrasekaran: agroecology that sequesters carbon into soils, making them more fertile, productive and resilient, while also supporting sustainable livelihoods and tackling climate change. But instead governments are desperately trying to attract agribusiness investment that does the precise opposite.
… the Prosavannah investment exchange between Brazil, Japan and Mozambique requires the … in Mozambique from small scale producers. Brazilian agribusinesses will use this to … same model of farming that is responsible for Brazil's top spot in global pesticide use and …