Anticipated tragedy
Yanomami die of hunger and disease due to lack of assistance from the public health system and harassment by illegal miners, whose presence prevents them from hunting, fishing and gathering food, in addition to bringing diseases to which the indigenous people have no resistance.
Carbon technology
A fundamental challenge at the carbon market is the credibility of the sequestration calculation. Brazil is managing to meet this demand, thanks to companies such as Vert Ecotech and Virtus Automation and A.I.
New economy
Innovation, entrepreneurship and logistics projects in the Amazon market products that keep the forest standing and generate income for rural producers and traditional communities.
Genomic wealth
The COP15 on Biodiversity in Montreal decided to create a multilateral fund to repatriate the benefits of companies that make use of digital genetic information. Traditional communities may be compensated.
Nuclear fusion
The announcement of the first nuclear fusion with a net energy gain opens the door to a clean, abundant and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. According to the most pessimistic estimates, it could become a reality in this century.
Carbon credits
Carbonext manages more than 1.6 million hectares of projects for the sale of carbon credits in the Amazon Rainforest. The work mobilizes an army of professionals and technological resources to meet strict international requirements.
Carbon market
To sell credits, it is necessary to prove an extra capture of carbon, or to avoid its emission. Brazil can do this in a win-win process, without the economic cost that other countries have to bear to generate these credits.
Science blackout
For the first time, rich countries accepted the idea of setting up a loss and damage fund to compensate developing countries affected by catastrophes associated with climate change. But Brazil has not done the scientific work of measuring its losses and damages and relating them to climate change. “Brazil has been very out of touch in this conversation,” says specialist Natalie Unterstell.
Brazil is back
You may or may not like Lula, but it is unquestionable, for those familiar with the environment and climate diplomacy, that his participation at COP27 was a success.
Rainforests Opec
Rainforest countries have presented proposals that indicate how much they are looking forward to Brazil assuming its role as a climate superpower. Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo proposed to Brazil creating a kind of “tropical forests OPEC”, whereas the Colombian government defended the creation of a bloc of Amazonian countries.
Climate superpower
President-elect Lula is going to participate at the COP-27 in Egypt. It will be a unique opportunity for Brazil to reclaim its role as a climate superpower. The conference takes place at a time of acute crisis for the planet in general and for the Amazon in particular.
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