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Approval of the Environmental Licensing Bill just four months before COP30 is the biggest legislative environmental setback since the dictatorship; Lula will have to veto it

Defeating the climate emergency outlined in André Lago’s statement to the international community requires action against fossil fuels

Brazilian president ramps up pressure on environmental agency to secure license for offshore drilling in the Amazon

The steering committee of the Climate Observatory welcomes the appointment of Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago as President of COP30, the climate conference to be held in Belém, and of Climate Change Secretary Ana Toni as its executive director. It is hard to imagine two people better suited for the role, given their extensive experience […]

Move discredits the European Commission and sends signal of impunity to actors on the ground in tropical countries

It is with deep sorrow that the Climate Observatory receives the news of the death of diplomat Daniel Machado da Fonseca, head of the Climate Action Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An expert on international negotiations in the energy sector, Fonseca was an experienced member of the group seeking to rebuild Brazil’s leadership […]

The only choice for Lula to uphold the Constitution and make good on his own promises to indigenous peoples is a total veto of Bill 2.903

Official data point at 11,568 km2 clear-cut in 2022; even with a drop last year, current Presidential term has seen the greatest increase in devastation in the satellite era

Brazilian organizations call for the inclusion of the biome, "the area with greatest socio-environmental impact from European trade"; read the manifest

Brazil chooses democracy and defeats fascism, but rebuilding the socio-environmental agenda is an obstacle race that starts now and will need a stern hand from Lula