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When speaking about climate change, it is necessary to differentiate between two types of response in policymaking. On the one hand, climate change demands a reorganization of societies and international relations as well as shifts in energy, production, and consumption systems. These fundamental transformations are ushered through by transition policies. On the other hand, even if societies managed to transition tomorrow, past greenhouse gas emissions have locked the world into climate-related disruptions. This calls for adaptation and mitigation policies to rebuild institutional and ecologi...

Why is the Amazon still at risk despite ‘zero deforestation’ commitments? Commodity-driven deforestation was the largest cause of tree cover loss in Brazil with 1.84 million hectares lost in 2020. Afp / Carl de Souza Many multinational companies including Swiss-based commodity firms have pledged to distance themselves from clear felling in the Amazon. A loophole in regulations and monitoring is jeopardising their best intentions.   This content was published on January 27, 2021 - 09:00 January 27, 2021 - 09:00 Anand Chandrasekhar Swissinfo.ch's India specialist covers a wide ran...

Director of Environmental Protection Agency summoned to Prosecutor General's Office AKIPRESS.COM - Director of the State Environmental Protection and Forestry Agency Dinara Kutmanova did not show up for the meeting of parliament committee on agricultural policy, water resources and environment... To Read the Full Story

Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon Fifty-one of the candidates were sitting office holders, 28 of whom ran for reelection. Many of these candidates are former illegal loggers and ranchers, and continue to hold a stake in agribusiness companies operating on deforested land. In addition to the environmental violations, some of the candidates are implicated in other serious crimes, including one accused of using slave labor on his farm, and another who owns a ranch where police uncovered 583 kilograms (1,285 pounds) of cocaine. By the end of the election, 85 ...

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs by Jenny Gonzales on 8 January 2021 Fifty million hectares (124 million acres) of undesignated forest in the Brazilian Amazon, an area the size of Spain, is under growing threat of illegal occupation and deforestation facilitated by a controversial government land registry. A Greenpeace Brazil study shows 62% of undesignated forest along a stretch of the BR-163 Highway has been illegally invaded and then registered by the occupiers with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR). CAR, a self-declaratory system, was creat...