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Toward a stalemate in Copenhagen

How industry pressures and competing national agendas dim prospects for a climate treaty 2
Posted 2 weeks ago Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil-fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to a new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Brazil offer to reduce deforestation by 80% 0
Posted 1 month ago
Brazil’s Lula vows to slow rate of Amazon deforestation 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday he will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest by 80 percent by 2020 when he attends December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.
Micture This

Peeing in the shower goes, um, viral 7
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As news hits of an ad campaign in Brazil aimed at convincing pee-ple to pee in the shower, Umbra revisits her advice on the very same topic.
Copin' with Copenhagen

What is Obama’s international climate strategy? 9
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
International climate negotiations often seem like some sort of cosmic science fair project -- an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors. There's a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, very little light.

Faith in the UN climate process has dimmed. Joe Romm calls it a "dead man walking." The Copenhagen talks in December are generally discussed with the same dissonant mixture of urgency ("You have to do it in Copenhagen," says UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer) and fatalism ("There is no movement," says German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel) as the last dozen rounds of international talks.

The Obama administration knows the danger of sclerosis and is working on several fronts to regain a sense of momentum.
Weather (or not) to blame climate?

AP, Washington Times: “Experts suspect global warming” in Brazil’s brutal flooding 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Trampling the rainforest

Greenpeace: your boots are made for climate change 3
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
According to Greenpeace, the cattle trade is still taking down vast swaths of the Brazilian rainforest. And it's not just the global appetite for beef that's driving the process.
Claussen in a Pickle

Does Pew Center’s Eileen Claussen get the dire nature of our climate predicament? 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Success in Brazil

The city that ended hunger did it by going local 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
What struck me in Frances Moore Lappé's piece at Yes! on Belo Horizonte, Brazil -- the city that ended hunger -- was how simple the solution was:
You Can Bank on It

World Bank approves $1.3 billion for Brazilian eco-projects 1
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Die Another Day

Hundreds of Brazilian eco-activists at risk of assassination, report says 0
Posted 11 months ago
Cut and Forest

Brazil sets plan to cut deforestation by 70 percent over 10 years 4
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Log of War

Giant mob protests Brazil crackdown on illegal logging 1
Posted 12 months ago
Don Tyson details plans to export the U.S. meat model to global south 5
Posted 1 year ago
A Dam Shame

Huge new hydroelectric dam under construction in Brazilian Amazon 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Christine MacDonald on Big Green NGOs and soy expansion in Brazil 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Bad news for climate change 9
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Brazil Nuts

Amazon deforestation soars, Brazil blames its own land-reform agency 4
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
To Preserve and Protect

Vermont-sized area of Amazon may be protected 17
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Amnesty International: forced labor in Brazil’s sugarcane fields 3
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago