Brazil News » Amazonas News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)
By João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: A conflict over cattle in Brazil's Amazon highlights tensions for Indigenous peoples
On a vast island in northern Brazil, an unusual debate about cattle and conservation is taking place. Federal authorities last year ordered the removal of herds from protected Indigenous territory ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike
Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: COP30 host city Belem, Brazil, tries to stoke economy while preserving Amazon rainforest
BELEM, Brazil, Nov 21 (Reuters) - On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon
In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal Amazon” region, which encompasses nine states and 60% of the entire forest ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: Amazon soy pact collapse could drive 1.4 million hectares of deforestation in Brazil by 2036, new study finds
A voluntary soy deforestation pact has collapsed after nearly two decades of success. This collapse is predicted to cause significant future deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Researchers ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: Brazil Is Developing a Weapon for Trade Wars: Fertilizer in the Amazon
AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Economy: Secure land rights linked to lower deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, study shows
Who owns the rainforest—and who has the right to use it—might seem like a simple question. But in the Brazilian Amazon, that question lies at the heart of one of the world's most persistent ...