“Drilling for oil in the Amazon is a contradiction in terms,” says Petro at COP28
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
“Drilling for oil in the Amazon is a contradiction in terms,” says Petro at COP28
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
COP28 is a bubble of white men that activists and Indigenous and Black people are trying to break through
Fossil fuels are the challenge at this year’s climate conference, but the slow pace of negotiations has socioenvironmental and antiracist movements frustrated, as deaths due to the impacts of global heating mount across the planet
In the transition from oil, Brazil insists on trailing behind
Brazil could fulfill its climate commitments and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels but instead of asserting itself as an ecological power, it plans to produce more oil for export, which risks a new era of energy dependence
Foz do Amazonas: Mines and Energy department head manufactures ‘legal dispute’ to force oil exploration
With a complicit Attorney-General's Office, Silveira is trying to turn a technical ruling affecting the Amazonian ecosystem and quality of life for future generations into a question of ‘arbitration’
Amazon Summit: forest peoples prevent government backsliding
By bringing nearly 30,000 people to Belém, social movements and leaders of traditional populations demonstrated their power of organization and an awareness of the impacts of climate change. They plan to be stronger still by the time of COP-30 in 2025
Luciana Gatti: ‘The Amazon is no longer offsetting human damage’
The scientist Luciana Gatti, who discovered the forest’s declining capability to absorb carbon dioxide emissions caused by human action, shows in a new study that in climatic terms the effects of deforestation under Bolsonaro were the equivalent to the most extreme El Niño ever recorded
Amazon Summit: Oil projects keep flowing despite civil society opposition
A lone voice in the defense of generations to come, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed a ban on new oil contracts in the planet’s largest tropical rainforest, but Lula and the leaders of the other six countries who will be in Belém do not appear to support him
Carbon Cowboys: Pará’s Public Defender accuses local government of land theft
A lawsuit points to misappropriation of public areas in five state agroextractive settlements, with involvement by companies and the city hall
How to restore the Amazon? A concrete proposal at last
A two-year study with participation by researchers from the region shows that a standing forest economy, with no new hydroelectric plants or high-speed roads, would generate more jobs and income than the current predatory model that is taking the biome to the point of no return
