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The invisible enemy: forest degradation in the Amazon
The Amazon is a critical component of the Earth’s climate, and Brazil and the planet are fighting to reduce tropical deforestation. But we have another hidden enemy: forest degradation. Two different...
View ArticleEvidence-based decision-making
Public policies can and should be monitored and evaluated. After all, every policy or program is the outcome of a process that entails several decisions along the way. When decision-making is based on...
View ArticleA future dominated by fossil fuels?
The year is 2070, and the planet has already warmed by 2.6 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. In some areas of the world, there is a daytime curfew due to the damaging effects on the brain of...
View ArticlePPCDAm: combating forest degradation and climate change in the Amazon
The Government launched the new Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). In its 5th phase, the plan has actions on the climate area and for the...
View ArticleReality check
A primeira coluna que escrevi após terem sido definidos os resultados das eleições presidenciais de 2022 começou com a palavra “alívio”. Lembro de tê-la escolhido cuidadosamente. A sensação de alívio...
View ArticleThe Time Frame thesis, what does it have to with us?
Let’s start by recalling what history tells us about the process by which Brazil’s land was occupied by colonizers. It’s well-known that the Portuguese came here on an expedition whose focus was...
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‘Mothers of the Mangrove’: Women lead project to preserve biodiversity of...
A iniciativaNomeThe ‘Mothers of Mangroves’ Network, a project that unites shellfish collectors in appreciation of their work, mangrove preservation and financial education.Quem está envolvidoAbout 700...
View ArticleMercury contamination: the slow and invisible death of indigenous peoples and...
Among the countless issues affecting the Amazon and its peoples, mercury contamination has gained prominence due to the public health problem that has emerged in the region, affecting the human...
View ArticleWe need to stop the destruction, it’s now or never!
It is already a consensus among scholars that we are living in a new geological era, the so-called “Anthropocene.” This geological era is marked by the destruction of our common home, our mother, the...
View ArticleWe need to talk about the Amazon together with Amazonians: nothing from us...
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world and it plays an important and necessary role in regulating the cycles of nature, which allow life to exist on the planet. This is why the issue...
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