:: Brazil | 15/06/2009 |
We want a clear position from the President regarding the plot against environmental legislation
Read below an article written by Marcio Santilli, ISA's coordinator.

:: Brazil | 28/04/2009 |
In her weekly article to Folha de São Paulo, Mrs. Marina Silva points the pressure over brazilian environmental legislation in Congress
BRAZIL IS GOING THROUGH a serious step backwards. In 1988, the Constitution reached unprecedented environmental quality and modernity, opening the path for important advances, many of them only reached after long and difficult processes. Since then – and especially during last year -, a sequence of declarations from authorities, disqualifying the environmental legislation, opened the way for initiatives that are increasing in volume and converging to the clear intention of disregarding those advances, in name of an old fashioned and narrow view of development. Learn more.

:: Brazil | 09/07/2008 |
Proposal for the creation of the amazon fund is ready
The Amazon Fund, designed to attract voluntary contributions to invest in the reduction of Amazon deforestation, was presented by the Brazilian government at a side event during the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Bali, Indonesia in December last year.