Tag: Brazil
Can Brazil convince the world to tax billionaire wealth?
The ambitious goal: To shove the case for taxing the wealth of our world’s wealthiest onto the world’s political stage.
Amazon deforestation drops 33% in Lula’s first six months
“It’s very positive, but we continue to have very high levels of deforestation.”
Why Brazil’s upcoming presidential election could determine the future of the...
“I don’t say this lightly as a scientist, but this is the most important election ever in Brazil for the Amazon and its survival.”
Brazilian meat giant JBS a bigger emitter than Italy, study estimates
Campaigners say the company’s net zero pledge amounts to greenwashing in light of its spiralling emissions.
How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil's landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in...
A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.
Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights
The country’s Supreme Court has agreed to review the process around a past case that cancelled the demarcation of an Indigenous territory claimed by the Guarani Kaiowá people.
How the police killing of a Black Brazilian teen sparked a...
The police killing of João Pedro Mattos Pinto, a 14-year-old Black Brazilian in Rio de Janeiro, unmasked the scope of police brutality amid a pandemic and led to an unprecedented court decision.
The next crisis? Losing the Amazon
If too much of the forest were to be degraded or lost, scientists worry that the whole area could be transformed into a savannah.
As Amazonian wildfire season approaches, we must protect the vulnerable forest
Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet.
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‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves...
Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
Facing Trump’s America
As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.