Tag: greenpeace

Brazil Scraps a Dam in the Amazon. There Are Dozens of Others in the Works Though

After the environmental permitting for the São Luiz do Tapajós, Pará, hydropower dam project ...

Saving the Amazon: Brazil Gets Deforestation Zero by 2015 Plan

A group of nine Brazilian non-governmental organizations has launched in Brazilian capital BrasÀ­lia a ...

Brazil: We Will Not Tolerate the Plunder of the Amazon

I’ve been in the Amazon almost a week now and from the moment I ...

Greenpeace Urges in Brazil Ban on Terminator Technologies

Greenpeace called upon the 188 states at the 8th meeting of the Convention on ...

Brazil Opens Amazon for Logging and Greenpeace Applauds

Brazil has approved a law granting licenses for wood logging in publicly owned sections ...

Brazil Puts Two Belgiums of Forests Under Protection.

Just one week after the excellent news about the Great Bear Rainforest comes another ...

Greenpeace Wants Brazil Leading by Example in Environmental Issues

The environmental movements hope that Brazil will assume a leadership position in the discussion ...

Greenpeace Calls Brazil’s Biosecurity Bill Unconstitutional

The non-governmental organization (NGO), Greenpeace, released a note summoning civil society to mobilize against ...

Brazil: Lula Between Greens and Farmers on GMC

Movements grounded in civil society raised their voices last week against the possibility of ...

Brazil Recalling Unlabeled Transgenics

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice ordered the impounding of genetically modified products that don’t carry ...