:: Brazil | 08/03/2012 |
NGOs launch document on the environmental setback in the first year of Presidente Dilma Rousseff's government
The first year of President Dilma Rosseff’s government was marked by the most intense backtracking on socio-environmental issues since the end of the military dictatorship, totally reversing the former tendency to an ever improving sustainable development agenda that governments had been implementing since 1988 and that had its high point when the Lula government succeeded in curbing the rate of deforestation in the Amazon. The progress achieved over the last two decades has enabled Brazil to become the first developing country to formalise carbon emission reduction targets and that has strongly contributed to establishing Brazil’s position as an international leader in the socioenvironmental sphere. Learn more....

:: Brazil | 01/04/2011 |
Proposal from companies and NGOs opens the way to consensus on the Forest Code
Document defends changes in the law, but with maintenance of current areas of conservation on private properties. It stipulates incentives for those who uphold the law and deals with demands from the agricultural sector

:: 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.