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South American country is expected to be the first major carbon emitter to formally join the deal against climate change; government's goal is to move ahead of other big polluters such as China

Senate passes climate agreement in a speedy session, opening the way to presidential sanction ahead of the UN ratification event in September; government prepares implementation plan

New platform for calculating the Asian giant's greenhouse gas emissions points to a growth of 29% between 2007 and 2012; it is based on the methodology developed by the Climate Observatory

Físico Gylvan Meira Filho revê cálculo da responsabilidade brasileira no aquecimento global e mostra que ela varia conforme a métrica

País propõe reduzir em 43% suas emissões de gases de efeito estufa até 2030, com expansão de energias renováveis. Ponto fraco são as medidas de preservação e recuperação de florestas

BONN, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 – Today the Brazilian Climate Observatory (Observatório do Clima, OC), a network of 37 civil society organizations, launched a proposal to the Brazilian government demonstrating how the nation can limit its annual greenhouse-gas emissions to 1 billion tons by 2030. Brazil, the world’s seventh greenhouse-gas emitter, has yet to submit its […]

The world's first NCD proposal by civil society organizations calls for an upper limit of 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide in Brazil by 2030, aims at carbon neutrality by 2050, and explains how to get there from here

Environmental organizations analyze the increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013 and present recommendations to the Brazilian government for reversing that tendency

At Climate Summit, President Dilma Rousseff restated Brazil’s past and current actions, but said nothing about the future of the fight against climate change in Brazil.

Registering high emission rates despite low economic growth, Brazil starts COP20 in a more fragile position than in previous climate conferences.