Minerais críticos: Governo estuda debêntures incentivadas
17.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0@keithripley.bsky.social
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Many hoped #INC5_2 would lead to the adoption of a new treaty to end #plasticpollution
But try as they might, delegates were unable to reach consensus and left Geneva amid uncertainty as to what the next steps might be
Summary ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plastic-poll...
#PlasticsTreaty
Uruguay would be the first country in Latin America to pass a comprehensive law legalising assisted dying that would make it widely available. Advocates in Chile are watching closely
17.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Research reveals global increase in wildfires due to climate change despite human interventions #ClimateChange #wildfires
www.pressenza.com/2025/08/rese...
Don’t ask what nature can do for you . . . on.ft.com/3V5w87i | opinion
17.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Paes anuncia início das obras na Rua da Carioca para criar polo cervejeiro no Centro do Rio .
17.08.2025 15:21 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0A woman votes at a polling station during the presidential election, in La Paz, on August 17, 2025.
Bolivians expressed hopes of change on Sunday as they voted in elections shaped by an economic crisis, which has given the right its first shot at power in 20 years.
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"Consensus is dead. You cannot agree a deal where all the countries who produce and export plastics and oil can decide the terms of what the deal is going to be," said IPEN's Beeler.
17.08.2025 16:17 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The Trump administration wants to rescind an Obama-era climate policy. The episode has shed light on the flimsy structures for regulating greenhouse-gas emissions at the federal level
15.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Suffering repeated changes, Brazil’s Forest Code regulates protected areas & forest management on private property, & commercialization of forest products.
Under the Code, if a landholder exceeds the legally permitted area eligible for conversion, they are legally required to restore the forest.
El litio, la promesa incumplida que se convirtió en moneda de cambio electoral en Bolivia.
✍ Gina Baldivieso
La limpieza del sargazo moviliza a voluntarios en Puerto Rico para salvar la vida marina.
✍ Jorge J. Muñiz Ortiz
Read the latest on the Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 from Hiroko Tabuchi at the NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c...
“The talks’ collapse “proved that there’s no way we can proceed with consensus,” said Bjorn Beeler, executive director at IPEN”
“The result was the chaos you saw.”
PL do Licenciamento Ambiental teve 63 vetos de Lula, mas manteve mudanças que podem afetar diretamente povos indígenas e quilombolas.
13.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1🗣Conferência Internacional de Resíduos Sólidos e Saneamento será realizada em Brasília
O Brasil produz anualmente cerca de 80 milhões de resíduos sólidos, mas apenas cerca de 4% desse total é reaproveitado ou reciclado.
📰Governadores se reúnem em Belém para debater estratégias para a COP30
Faltando menos de 100 dias para a conferência, Fórum Nacional de Governadores tem como objetivo fortalecer uma posição unificada dos estados brasileiros em relação à agenda climática
How do we go from thinking to action in a world where the fossil fuel industry is accelerating the climate catastrophe?
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/7/fro...
Brasil lança primeira embalagem de café 100% reciclável.
www.em.com.br/nacional/202...
Nature is collapsing
Forests around the world are taking longer to recover from severe wildfires and some not recovering at all
Fewer than one-third of all forests studied recovered successfully within seven years of a “megafire”
www.carbonbrief.org/forests-taki...
Slightly less dangerous -
short-chain PFAS still present environmental and health concerns.
O IEMA marcou presença no 2º Encontro da Rede Conexão Povos da Floresta em Manaus. O Instituto participou do painel sobre conectividade e justiça climática e contribuiu para o mapeamento de desafios e a definição de ações para ampliar o acesso à energia elétrica.
13.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0💰Brasil aposta em tecnologia para recuperar pastagens
Em workshop, especialistas destacam o papel da tecnologia na recuperação de pastagens e defendem o Brasil como protagonista da agenda climática na COP30
Businesses can champion change by embracing reuse and refill systems once again, maintain better business practices, and support a healthy planet. 🌏
But we need global legislation to ensure that it is enforced. #StrongPlasticsTreatyNow!
#PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Today, the INC Chair released a draft Chair’s text for the Plastics Treaty negotiations. Read our statement
"...the text is not an acceptable basis for negotiation because it is weak, unbalanced, non-binding, and does not address the full life cycle of harm caused by plastics and plastic chemicals."