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.
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.
Brazil created an entire architecture for financing programs, not only for inspection, but above all for promoting sustainable development. That system was dismantled, funds were emptied and diverted. But it is still there, and it can work again, if and when there is political will, says Alessandra Cardoso, from Inesc.
There is a tendency to see indigenous culture as something static. As if changes necessarily represented the abandonment of indigenous culture. But, if we stop to think about it, there are no cultures like that. Every culture changes.
The Pantanal is incredibly rich in food, cultures and landscapes. Its vocation is ecotourism. There’s a death impulse lurking around us. We have to respond with a desire for life that is stronger.
All of us Brazilians have before us this journey towards our denied identity. So glad we got that chance! We will come out much better.
We need to stop seeing the Amazon as a cheap land, stolen from the State, to be exploited for conventional agriculture, and look at the infinitely greater wealth that is on this land.
Funds for Brazil’s environment inspection bodies more than doubled in 2021. Even so, deforestation in the Amazon increased by 20% compared to the previous year. In a lecture on Thursday in Manaus at the 1st Environmental Congress of Members of the Audit Courts, I argued that this experience deserves a study.
In the face of so much bad news, so much ignorance and indifference, hearing Queen Elizabeth’s positioning and Carlos Nobre’s science lectures is a breath of fresh air.
Here at Earth News Terra we don’t fight the news. There is no way to work for a different reality without first looking at it for what it is. At the same time, what motivated the creation of this platform was the desire to get out of impotence, despair, the dangerous feeling that the Amazon is lost, there is nothing to be done. We go out in search of solutions, and they exist.
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Adriano Gambarini
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