More About Brazil

More Pathetic Excuses from BlackRock's CEO

The "conscience of Wall Street" passes the buck on climate action

Larry Fink's view of real climate action was clear when he dodged hard questions and tried to shift the blame to others. When challenged on the billions in assets that BlackRock owns in the fossil fuel industry driving climate change, he blamed his clients. Yep, really. Some leadership, huh?

An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth

Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing

The desperate hunger for carbon credit plans appears to have blinded many of their advocates to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't – and won't – deliver the climate benefit they promise.

"Resisting to Exist"

Indigenous women unite against Brazil's far-right president

"The policies adopted by the current government... violate all our rights and aim to destroy us," said Maria Eva Canoé. "But we are strong, we are resistant. And we are here in this... the 15th encampment, to show to the government, and to all society, that we are alive, that we are resisting to exist."

Terra Livre Mobilization Propels Brazil's Indigenous Movement to the Forefront of Resistance to Bolsonaro

"The economic project of the Bolsonaro government answers to powerful financial interests, to private corporations, many of them international, including agribusiness and mining interests, among others. Therefore, it is a highly beholden government that is anti-national, predatory, ethnocidal, genocidal and ecocidal."

U.S. Congress Resists the Bolsonaro-Trump Duo of Devastation

A match made in Hell? Two individuals with the least regard for the environment and minority rights might be joining forces to "develop" the Amazon. In March, Brazil's new extreme right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro met with his role model Donald Trump at the White House. One of their discussion topics was how to collaborate on the Amazon.

Respect Rights and Traditional Knowledge to Protect Mother Earth

Once a year, the United Nations Headquarters in New York welcomes hundreds of indigenous leaders and representatives from around the world for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Amazon Watch spent the week accompanying and amplifying the voices and solutions of Amazonian leaders from Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.

Complicity in Destruction II

How northern consumers and financiers enable Bolsonaro's assault on the Brazilian Amazon

As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon provides 20% of our oxygen, houses 10% of the planet's biodiversity, and helps stabilize the global climate. The world needs it to survive. None understand this better than the indigenous peoples and traditional communities who call it home, and are proven to be its best stewards. Despite their importance, the Brazilian Amazon and its peoples are suffering the worst assault in a generation.