The Brazilian Ministry of Environment last week announced that there was a 49% drop in deforestation in the Amazon region in June, compared with the same period in 2009. The data was provided by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE)...
Category - Deforestation
- Amazon
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- Biomass
- Brazil
- Carbon emissions
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- Environmental cost of meat
- Rainforest
- Sustainable Development
Dispatch from the Amazon: the queen of biomes needs care – and global cooperation
The day the group of journalists I was visiting Brazil with by an invitation of Apex, a trade and investment agency, arrived in Brasilia for a series of meetings with government officials, the news was good. The country had managed to reduce...
- alternative energy
- Amazon
- Amazon trip
- Animals
- Biofuel
- Brazil
- Carbon emissions
- Deforestation
- environment
- ethanol
- Forests
- Fossil fuel
- Hydropower
- Oil
- Solar power
- wind energy
Dispatch from Brazil: the energy issue
Brazil takes a lot of pride in the fact that 48% of its energy matrix is renewable, mostly thanks to hydropower, the source of 80% of the electricity consumed in the country, and ethanol, which has been powering vehicles in the country since the...
Mild-mannered and soft-spoken Sérgio Serra has a tough job in his hands. He is the Brazilian Climate Change Ambassador, the representative of a country that emerged from the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen last October with one of the most ambitious...
Follow our blogger/editor, Antonio, on a six-day trip to Brazil for a firsthand look at the world´s greatest biodiversity, found in the Amazon rainforest, and to become familiar with local policies to reach national targets on deforestation and...
