In March this year, the Brazilian Congress began deliberating a bill that would exclude the state of Mato Grosso from the country’s formally recognized Amazonian region, or the Legal Amazon. The justification behind the bill, introduced by Congress members Juarez Costa from the Democratic Movement (MDB) party and Neri Geller from the Progressive (PP) party, […]
Seeking re-election, Jair Bolsonaro’s government has championed the easing of environmental policy in Brazil, while opponents push for a sustainable turnaround
How do you justify tearing down the world’s greatest rainforest for agribusiness? Pretend it’s not a rainforest. That appears to be the thinking behind a bill introduced into Brazil’s lower house of Congress in February that proposes removing the state of Mato Grosso from the country’s formally recognized Amazonian region despite the fact that […]