In line with our November 2022 news alert, Brazil’s new administration has had a very busy January pursuing its social, environmental, and climate agendas. In his first week in office, President ...

Brazil: Ratify Regional Environment Pact. ... risking their lives as they try to hold on to their land and protect the environment and their livelihoods in a land-reform settlement in the Amazon.

It should use that leverage to help realise these reforms by requiring Brazil to adopt them as a firm pre-condition for membership. The OECD should also ensure that the accession process for Brazil ...

Brazil's Congress passed a controversial reform loosening environmental licensing rules on Thursday, prompting backlash from environmentalists as the country prepares to host the COP30 climate summit ...

At the same time Brazil achieved a reduction of deforestation by 82 percent between 2004 and 2014. After decades of uneven development, it appeared that Brazil had finally managed to combine growth, ...

BRASILIA, JUNE 26th, 2025 – As Brazil looks to address budget constraints, it can adopt policies that close the fiscal gap, enhance environmental protection and create enhanced employment ...

The bancada ruralista, or ruralist lobby, in Brazil’s congress flexed its muscles in 2017, making numerous demands on President Michel Temer to make presidential decrees weakening environmental ...

At 76, and with more than five decades of politics under his belt, Lula is adapting. And his willingness to do so makes it clear that, for the first time, climate and the environment will be at ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sworn in its first justice with an Amazonian background in almost 20 years. Flávio Dino de Castro e Costa, a former federal judge who served as a governor and a ...

Brazil is considering measures that would roll back environmental protections and make it difficult to meet its Paris climate accord targets – a signal it is stepping back from its global ...