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CONTENT: Blog CNH Industrial has a longstanding commitment to furthering sustainability in Brazil, not only in terms of the products it produces, but also more broadly in communities across the country. And 2021 is set to be a bumper year in terms of support: the Company has selected 31 projects which will receive some 4.2 million reais of funding. The specific projects are closely linked to the themes of sustainability in three areas: culture, society and the environment and are accompanied by a strong focus on the educational development of children and young people. “Being sustainable is...

WORLD Brazil: Churches open their doors to thousands displaced by floods Churches open their doors in Brazil's western Amazon region after days of flooding cause the displacement of thousands of families. By Vatican News staff writer Thousands of families have been left homeless in the western Amazon after torrential rains caused severe flooding across the Brazilian state of Acre. At an already critical time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, those most hard-hit are the poor who live on the banks of rivers. This is the case for the community of Sena Madureira, a town near the Iaco River. Locat...

The Kalunga digitally map traditional lands to save Cerrado way of life The Kalunga represents a grouping of 39 traditional quilombola communities — the descendants of runaway slaves — living on a territory covering 262,000 hectares (647,000 acres) in Goiás state in central Brazil, within the Cerrado savanna biome. This territory has been under heavy assault by illegal invaders, including small-scale wildcat gold miners, and large-scale mining operations, as well as land grabbers who have destroyed native vegetation to grow soy and other agribusiness crops. To defend their lands, the Kal...

Pandemic covers up setbacks in Brazilian environmental laws The issuing of environmental fines for illegal deforestation in Brazil fell by 72 per cent in 2019-2020 despite an increase in deforestation rates. Copyright: Amazônia Real, underCreative Commons 2.0 Speed read Legal deregulation peaked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, study found Brazilian society, scientists and media may have mitigated the damage Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some ...

Brazil already has the largest fleet of cars driven by ethanol, mainly from sugarcane; now corn-based ethanol plants are on the rise. The ethanol produced by sugarcane and corn has have the potential to reduce up to 90% of the greenhouse gases. And, as mentioned in our recent blog, the country’s diesel fuel will soon have an additional one percent of biofuel (13% compared to current levels of 12%). This is mainly produced by soy oil. The carbon footprint these biofuels leave will be a business opportunity to exchange carbon credits with different industries. Many power plants produce sugar ...