Climate Update

IMPACTS

Torrential rains have caused one of Brazil’s worst floods in modern history, leaving more than 100 dead and nearly an entire state submerged.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Tropische Vögel, die im Atlantischen Regenwald Brasiliens leben, verbreiten Pflanzensamen und könnten so die Wiederaufforstung der Region unterstützen. Erschwert wird das aber durch die Fragmentierung des Waldes, wie ein Team der ETH Zürich herausgefunden hat.

IMPACTS

Vom Hochwasser seien etwa 850’000 Einwohner in 340 Ortschaften des Bundesstaates Rio Grande do Sul betroffen. In den meisten von ihnen wurde der Notstand ausgerufen.

IMPACTS

This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastating

IMPACTS

Le bilan s'est alourdi samedi au Brésil où des inondations ont dévasté l'Etat du Rio Grande do Sul depuis plusieurs jours, faisant au moins 56 morts et 67 disparus dans cette région du sud du pays. La capitale régionale Porto Alegre est fortement touchée.

JUSTICE CLIM. POLITIQUE

Brazil and France want the G20 to get behind a global minimum tax on billionaires’ wealth, also backed by IMF chief

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Le président brésilien, qui a accueilli son homologue français à Belem, est parvenu à freiner la déforestation en Amazonie. Mais sa politique en faveur de nouveaux forages pétroliers est critiquée.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Noch nie hat es in Amazonien so viel gebrannt wie in diesem Jahr. Mit altem Wissen und moderner Technik versuchen indigene Feuerwehr­leute den Regenwald zu retten. Eine Reportage von einem Brennpunkt des Klimawandels.

IMPACTS

The reading is the city’s highest in a decade. Heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into account humidity.

CAUSES

Die Abholzung im brasilianischen Amazonasregenwald ist einem Bericht zufolge in den ersten beiden Monaten des Jahres auf dem niedrigsten Stand seit 2018 in diesem Zeitraum gewesen.

IMPACTS

Hundreds of square miles of the rainforest have burned as countries in the region battle a record number of fires fueled by extreme weather.

IMPACTS

Anhaltende Dürre bedroht das kostbare Ökosystem in Südamerika. Eine neue Studie versucht, zu erfassen, was der Mensch damit zu tun hat.

IMPACTS

Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year's severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins, researchers said Wednesday.

POLITIQUE

Brazil’s president inspired hope a year ago but approval of a new highway shows he remains a concrete-and-oil state builder

CAUSES

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“Things are going downhill with the new government”, said one gold miner when detained by Brazil’s federal police

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The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will threaten the future of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

CAUSES

Brazilian officials served up an array of plans and figures at the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai, presenting itself as a world leader, on track to protect its forests and the people who live there.

IMPACTS

Eine schwere Dürre plagt den Amazonas-Regenwald. Mehrere Faktoren kommen zusammen: Abholzung, das Wetterphänomen El Niño, Brände sowie der Klimawandel. Kann sich der Regenwald noch regenerieren?

CAUSES

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased for the eighth consecutive month, but damage is rising in the cerrado, a tropical woody grassland that’s adjacent to Earth’s largest rainforest.

IMPACTS

Dem Amazonas setzt vieles zu: das Wetterphänomen El Niño, aber auch die Folgen des Klimawandels. Für die Menschen, die im Amazonas leben, sind die Folgen schon jetzt massiv. Ist die Entwicklung noch umkehrbar?

IMPACTS

Die Regierung im Amazonas hat den Notstand ausgerufen: Schiffe liegen auf dem Trockenen, Delfine verenden. Drei Gründe für die Dürre. Der Amazonas leidet unter der schlimmsten Trockenheit seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen vor über 120 Jahren.

CAUSES

Lateinamerika hat nach dem Nahen Osten die zweitgrössten Öl- und Gasreserven weltweit, etwa 15 Prozent der global nachgewiesenen Vorkommen.

ÉCONOMIE

Une enquête de lauréat du Prix d’investigation de Public Eye Reportage réalisé par André Campos, Naira Hofmeister, Gil Alessi, France Júnior, Ruy Sposati, Carolina Motoki et Bruna Bronoski Photos: Ruy Sposati, Lilo Clareto, Fernando Martinho, João Laet · Vidéos de drone:Ruy Sposati, Fern

ÉCONOMIE

Eine Untersuchung von Gewinner des Public Eye Investigation Award Reportage von André Campos, Naira Hofmeister, Gil Alessi, France Júnior, Ruy Sposati, Carolina Motoki und Bruna Bronoski Fotos: Ruy Sposati, Lilo Clareto, Fernando Martinho, João Laet · Drohnenvideos:Ruy Sposati, Fernando Martinh

IMPACTS

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IMPACTS

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its lowest point in at least 121 years, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem.

DROIT & LITIGE

Ein Gesetz, das Indigenen verbieten wollte, weitere Ansprüche auf die Rückgabe von Land zu erheben, ist ungültig. Gerichtsentscheid zugunsten der indigenen Bevölkerung: Das oberste Gericht Brasiliens hat nach monatelangen Beratungen ein umstrittenes Gesetz für ungültig erklärt.

POLITIQUE

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses the audience at the summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in Belem, Brazil August 8, 2023. (Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil Presidency/Reuters)

CAUSES

The first half of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency was so destructive for the Amazon that it was comparable to the record 2016 El Niño drought and heatwave in terms of carbon emissions, according to scientists.

CAUSES

Die Bedeutung des Amazonas-Regenwaldes für den Planeten und seine Bewohner kann man gar nicht hoch genug einschätzen, da sind sich Wissenschaftler verschiedenster Disziplinen einig.

CAUSES

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's term compared with the same period in 2022, the government says.

POLITIQUE

Wirtschaftswachstum und verstärkter Schutz der grünen Lunge: Brasiliens Präsident ist mit seinen Versprechen im Dilemma. Seit dem Amtsantritt des neuen brasilianischen Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Anfang Jahr ist die Abholzung im Amazonasgebiet deutlich gesunken.

ACTIVISME

Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging about their latest job. “We’re looking for this Orlando bloke.

CAUSES

More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according to a new investigation, despite dire warnings about the forest’s importance in fighting the climate crisis.

CAUSES

The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned.

IMPACTS

The illegal tin mine was so remote that, for three years, the massive gash it cut into the Amazon rainforest had gone largely ignored. So when three mysterious helicopters suddenly hovered overhead, unannounced, the miners living there scrambled into the forest.

RECOMMANDÉ JUSTICE CLIM.

Mit dem Mythos von Nachhaltigkeit würden Politik und Unternehmen die Ausbeutung der Welt vorantreiben, kritisiert Ailton Krenak. Der brasilianische Philosoph fordert eine Diät für die Industriestaaten. Amazonien, das grösste und vielfältigste Ökosystem, steht kurz vor dem Umkippen.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Es sind martialische Videos, die das brasilianische Umweltministerium derzeit im Netz postet: Dichter Regenwald, über dem Helikopter kreisen, Rauchsäulen steigen auf, Feuer lodern.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Most people know that Brazil’s rainforests are rapidly disappearing, and that the loss accelerates global climate change while harming the communities living under the trees’ canopy.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Only 5% of net forest loss occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon – even though these areas contain more than half of the region’s forest.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Watching the first few minutes of “The Territory,” a new documentary set in the Amazon rainforest, is like listening to a symphony of deforestation. The film opens with the sound of an engine revving, the camera lingering on a boot pressed down on a dusty gas pedal.

CAUSES

Les dommages infligés à la forêt amazonienne, qui recouvre neuf pays, sont significativement plus importants que ceux qui avaient été observés auparavant, ont indiqué l'équipe de recherche dont les membres proviennent notamment de l'université brésilienne Estadual de Campinas.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

CAUSES

In 1970, the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil launched one of the world’s most ambitious construction projects: the Trans Amazonian Highway, a 2,600-mile road across the Amazon River basin.

IMPACTS RECOMMANDÉ

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. One of the first times Luciana Vanni Gatti tried to collect Amazonian air she got so woozy that she couldn’t even operate the controls.

POLITIQUE

On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment In his first day in office, Brazil’s new president, Lula da Silva, signed a package of seven executive orders aimed at controlling deforestation in the Amazon a

POLITIQUE

Die Hoffnung auf einen Neustart im Amazonasschutz ist gross. Doch Bolsonaro hinterlässt ein schweres Erbe. Kaum war Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva im Amt, machte er klar: Regenwaldschutz sei in Brasilien ab sofort Staatsangelegenheit.

CAUSES

For anyone who cares about the Amazon rainforest, there will be an extra reason to celebrate the new year countdown in Brazil on 31 December because the first stroke of midnight will mark the last moment in power of Jair Bolsonaro.

CAUSES

An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil in 2021 (REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli) Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna rose for the third year in a row, government data showed on Wednesday, destroying a

POLITIQUE

The incoming Brazilian government is considering cancelling a network of gas power plants and pipelines planned by the current president Jair Bolsonaro, according to the likely new environment minister Marina Silva.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

This time of year, global and social leaders gather at the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP) to seek solutions and to confront the climate crisis that threatens society as a whole.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Eine Menschentraube drängt sich um Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, den designierten brasilianischen Präsidenten, als er zum Podium schreitet. Während seiner Rede bricht die Menge immer wieder in Jubel und Lula-Gesänge aus.

Brazil – In one of the most anticipated moments of COP27, the UN climate conference, the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, presented this Wednesday (Nov 16) measures and guidelines for the conservation of the Amazon forest, the development of that region and the protection of

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told the world that “Brazil is back” at Cop27, vowing to begin undoing the environmental destruction seen under his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, and work towards zero deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

CAUSES

Lula has pledged to restore the Amazon. Will it be enough? Brazil, the largest nation in South America and home of the iconic Amazon rainforest, will have a new leader come January 1: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

CAUSES

Der Regenwaldschutz hat unter Bolsonaro einen schweren Rückschlag erlitten. (Foto: Kathrin Henneberger) Das war knapp. Mit 50,9 Prozent der Stimmen hat Lula da Silva von der Arbeiterpartei gestern die Stichwahl um das Präsidentenamt in Brasilien für sich entschieden.

SCIENCES

Can science help Indigenous peoples protect themselves and the world’s largest rainforest? Drug runners, gold miners and loggers are rapidly invading the remote Peruvian Amazon, home to isolated people and a wealth of biodiversity.

POLITIQUE

If elected as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva will update the country’s “insufficient” climate plan, his environmental spokesperson told Climate Home.

DROIT & LITIGE

The plan was to meet in Altamira, Brazil, and travel 1,000 miles across the northern Amazon as a kind of people’s court.

CAUSES

The photo presentation in this story was produced in collaboration with the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford University and the University of Southern California.

CAUSES

Am zweiten Wochenende im September wachten die Menschen in São Paulo unter einer dichten Rauchglocke auf. Es roch intensiv nach Feuer und Russ. Die Umweltagentur Climatempo wies nach, dass die Russpartikel aus dem rund 4000 Kilometer entfernten Amazonasgebiet stammten. Eine gewaltige Entfernung.

POLITIQUE

A loss for Jair Bolsonaro in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election could lead to Amazon deforestation in his nation falling by 89% over the next decade, according to new analysis conducted for Carbon Brief.

POLITIQUE

The climate crisis and rainforest conservation are emerging as major issues in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election. Yet both leading candidates are pushing for new fossil fuel infrastructure.

CAUSES

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ANTI-CLIMAT

Ms. Brum is a journalist and a documentary filmmaker who covers environmental issues and lives in the Amazon rainforest. Monday began, for me, with a call that became a horror story.

IMPACTS

At least 44 people have died in northeast Brazil amid heavy rains over the weekend. Reporting contributed by journalist Marcia Reverdosa in Sao Paulo.

CAUSES

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year – the previous April record – preliminary government data has shown, alarming environmental campaigners.

ACTIVISME

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat bringing gasoline for generators and outboard motors to remote settlements like his.

POLITIQUE

Brazil has been accused of using a carbon accounting trick to cover for weakened ambition in its updated climate plan submitted to the UN last week. Under the plan, Brazil pledged to cut emissions 50% between 2005 and 2030 – up from 43% previously. A goal of 37% emissions cuts by 2025 remains.

POLITIQUE

I’d like you to meet Manuela. She’s my partner on Climate Forward, and you’ll hear from her regularly when I’m out on reporting trips and unavailable to write the newsletter. Today, she takes you inside the climate politics of her home country, Brazil. In Brazil, beef isn’t just food.

CAUSES

«In Anbetracht des Krieges in Osteuropa besteht die Gefahr, dass es zu einer Verknappung von Kalium oder einem Preisanstieg kommt», twitterte Brasiliens Präsident Jaír Bolsonaro am 2. März 2022. Und vom Kalium hänge Brasiliens Ernährungssicherheit ab.

CAUSES

The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in January far exceeded deforestation for the same month last year, according to government satellite data. The area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015.

CAUSES

En Amazonie, des agents chimiques défoliants sont pulvérisés par avion dans les zones forestières indigènes. Le glyphosate et le 2,4-D, entre autres, provoquent la défoliation des arbres, qui finissent affaiblis ou morts dans un processus qui prend des mois.

CAUSES

Die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace hat eine verheerende Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsbilanz für die bisherige Amtszeit von Brasiliens Präsident Jair Bolsonaro gezogen.

CAUSES

Chemicals created to kill agricultural pests are being sprayed by aircraft into native forest areas. Glyphosate and 2,4-D, among others, cause the trees to defoliate, and end up weakened or dead in a process that takes months.

IMPACTS

In northeast Brazil, local officials say they have never before seen flooding on this scale. Tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes.

CAUSES

For many, the overriding image of agriculture in the Amazon is one of environmental destruction. About 80% of deforestation in the region has been attributed to cattle ranching, tainting beef exports.

IMPACTS

Auf der Klimakonferenz diesen Monat in Glasgow gab Brasilien den Waldschützer. Bis 2028 solle die illegale Abholzung im Amazonas-Gebiet beendet werden, ließ Präsident Jair Bolsonaro verkünden.

POLITIQUE

An agent of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) gets ready before going to an operation to combat of deforestation, in Uruara, Para State, Brazil January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino