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Jun 24

CBC and SEMARH of Alagoas formalize partnership

The Brazil Center on Climate (CBC) and the State Secretariat of Environment and Water Resources (SEMARH) of Alagoas made official on June...

Apr 17

Pernambuco Climate Change Forum discusses CO2 mitigation actions in the state

Despite the social isolation caused by Covid-19, the state climate agenda still has urgencies to be discussed. Held today, April 16, for ...

Apr 17

Meeting of the Environmentalist Parliamentary Front and CBC discuss updates on the Brazilian NDC

The Environmentalist Parliamentary Front, in partnership with Centro Brasil no Clima and support from the Climate and Society Institute a...

Apr 13

Learn more about Brazil Zero Carbon, developed by the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change

Seeking to assess how Brazil can become a carbon neutral country, with zero net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in the year 2060, in 2018...

Apr 2

Reducing carbon footprint becomes strategic

By: Marinete Veloso. Including in their strategic plans projects capable of reducing or offsetting carbon emissions in the atmosphere has...

Mar 31

CBC participates in webinar to discuss climate goals for 2030

FREE REGISTRATION! Webinar “Solve Climate by 2030 - Brazil”, 07/04 at 18h. Alfredo Sirkis, executive director of CBC, will participate in...

Mar 27

Brazil reduces environmental enforcement amid coronavirus outbreak

By: Jake Spring Brazil will decrease efforts to combat environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, an official from the Brazili...

Mar 19

CBC promotes meeting and workshop to analyze the Brazilian NDC

What are the climate challenges for 2020? How do you plan to implement NDC at a state level? These were the questions answered today, on ...

Mar 19

New Environmental Licensing Law provides for actions against climate change for the first time

In today's modern scenario, the importance of climate mitigation is fundamental to the construction of new environmental permits. Thinkin...

Mar 19

Climate change could lead to disappearance of beaches around the world

The beaches occupy more than a third of the global coast and have high socio-economic value related to tourism and ecosystem services. Th...

Mar 19

Fires intensified by global warming may destroy 16% of the Amazon

In a recent study led by the University of California and the Environmental Research Institute of the Amazon (Ipam), a group of scientist...

Mar 19

With reformulations, Minister Salles strips naked corpse of climate policy

As reported in the press this week, Minister Ricardo Salles ordered the resignation of positions in the Environment Ministry related to h...

Mar 19

Climate Reality Project Brazil is new site

Bringing up specific issues regarding global warming, climate change and climate leaderships, The Climate Reality Project Brazil opens a w...

Mar 19

Emissões de CO2 são compensadas por plantio de árvore no carnival de Recife

Revealing a commitment to tackling the global climate crisis, Recife seeks sustainability even during Carnival. The largest parade in the...

Mar 19

Study reveals the importance of indigenous land in climate mitigation

The excess carbon stored above the ground in the Amazon forests is essential to any climate balance strategy. A new scientific study, "Th...

Jan 27

Alfredo Sirkis: "We must recognise the convertible value of the" less carbon "

For the former coordinator of the Brazilian Climate Change Forum, the priority is to end coal and stop deforestation in Brazil, Indonesia...

Jan 14

CBC Executive Director joins French list of 100 ecology thinkers

Created by French radio France Culture, the list "Eco-intellectuals: 100 thinkers to understand ecology" included the name of the executi...

Nov 28, 2019

Plan for Brazilian NDC becomes workshop

By: Beatriz Couto With less than a week to go until COP-25, the Brazil Centre on Climate held a workshop on financing alternatives for th...

Nov 19, 2019

24 hours on the climate

The Climate Reality Project, created by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, is organizing a global event to inform society about the plan...

Nov 19, 2019

The Amazon deforestation, in 2019

Deforestation in the Amazon from August 2018 to June 2019 increased by 29.5%, from 7536 km2 to 9765 km2. An increase from 2018 was alread...

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