Tag: Brazil

Last week, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo announced Indonesia would start restricting exports of palm oil due to severe shortages ...

As Brazil continues to pass anti-environmental laws, Choose Love and Earthrise launched their second Choose Earth campaign on Earth Day ...

On Wednesday, thousands of protestors gathered in Brazil to contest a series of anti-environmental laws expected to be voted on ...

Deforestation in the Amazon has been occurring for years as mining and commercial farming has risen in Brazil. As deforestation ...

Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, described Brazil as a “green powerhouse” at a speech on Monday, while absent from the COP26 ...

A Brazilian Senate panel is set to recommend that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” asserting that ...

Deforestation has plagued the Amazon rainforest for generations. Evidence suggests that the crisis is only deepening, whilst economic priorities consistently ...

When you think about restoring a deforested patch of land, you likely picture someone digging holes in the ground and ...

Since taking office in 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s deforestation policies have led to the systematic destruction of forests to ...

We often hear how Brazil’s deforestation crisis threatens its major ecosystems and the people who live in them. That’s an ...

One of UNESCO’s world heritage sites, Pantanal is one of the world’s most diverse biomes, and home to endangered species ...

Editor's note: This article first appeared on the ICLEI blog.  One of the most urbanized regions in the world, over ...