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As ministras do Meio Ambiente, Marina Silva, e Povos Indígenas, Sônia Guajajara, o presidente do BNDES, Aloízio Mercadante, falam do Comitê Orientador do Fundo Amazônia.

Amazon Fund gains importance in Brazilian diplomacy and draws attention from more countries

By Patrícia Figueiredo 23 de March de 202330 de March de 2023

Main donor Norway may increase contributions; The country’s minister of the environment is visiting Brazil until Saturday (25) and reaffirms commitment, while adding that they support Brazil in the mobilization of additional resources. Switzerland, France, Spain, the UK and the US have also expressed interest in investing in the fund.

‘The fight goes on’: four indigenous leaders from Amazonia outline their expectations for the next four years

By Emily Costa 9 de February de 202313 de March de 2023

In a conversations with InfoAmazonia, Maial Kaiapó, Samela Sateré-Mawé, Júnior Hekurari Yanomami and Alessandra Korap Munduruku spoke about the historically important establishment of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, and the sense of relief following the dismantling of environmental policies.

Funai to seek support from the Amazon Fund: ‘things are destitute’, says Joenia Wapichana

By Emily Costa 31 de January de 202323 de February de 2023

Funai’s new president, who took office on February 3, told InfoAmazonia in an interview that the [agency’s] budget for demarcating and protecting Indigenous Territories is approximately R$ 90,000, which means she will be looking for alternatives for getting the agency back up and working.

Accelerated deforestation in the last months of 2022 poses challenges for Lula’s environmental policy

By Giovana Girardi 27 de January de 202317 de February de 2023

Not only were INPE’s DETER deforestation alerts in 2022 the highest in history, they surpassed the average for the previous 12 months by 25%. The state of Amazonas ranked second among those Brazilian states inside the Legal Amazon that lost the most rainforest.

Brazil was responsible for 70% of the CO2e emissions from deforestation in Pan-Amazonia over the last 35 years

By Leandro Chaves 18 de November de 202221 de December de 2022

A MapBiomas study released at COP27 on changes in land use in threatened South American ecosystems found that expanding farming and cattle raising activities were drivers for the loss of Amazonian forests between 1985 and 2020.

The challenges Lula will face to eradicate illegal deforestation in Amazonia by 2028

By Leandro Chaves 11 de November de 202214 de November de 2022

Specialists focus on the difficulties the new 2023 administration faces to reach the goal promised by the Bolsonaro administration at COP26 last year. Escalating deforestation rates could keep Brazil from carrying out its promise.

Protected areas absorb 27% of greenhouse gas emissions in Amazonia

By Leandro Chaves 9 de November de 202218 de November de 2022

A Brazilian Climate Observatory study found that the dense vegetation in the states of Amazonas and Amapá, regions whose territories are more than half composed of Conservation Units and Indigenous Territories, was able to remove all the CO2e that had been released to their atmosphere in 2021.

Four years of Bolsonaro’s Amazon destruction, in satellite imagery

By Fábio Bispo and Leandro Chaves 28 de October de 202228 de October de 2022

Deforestation in the Amazon has spiraled out of control during Jair Bolsonaro’s as president. InfoAmazonia and PlenaMata have illustrated the destruction using satellite imagery.

Pro-environment bloc in the Chamber shrinks by 20%, but gains heavyweight names

By Leandro Chaves 7 de October de 20223 de November de 2022

Brazilians elect 81 federal deputies committed to the environmental cause, 20 fewer than in the current legislature. Former environment minister Marina Silva and indigenous leader Sônia Guajajara promise to heat up debates on the issue in Brasília.

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60 candidates in Amazonia had their campaigns funded by deforesters

By Leandro Chaves 28 de September de 20223 de November de 2022

They received a total of R$1.77 million in 8 states. Most belong to parties in Bolsonaro’s support base in Congress, in particular the Partido Liberal (PL) and the União Brasil. A candidate from Acre, convicted of modern slavery, received the largest donation to any candidate in the Amazon from his own father, arrested for environmental crime.

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