On April, South Korean conglomerate Hyundai announced that it would prevent its excavators from being used in illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon. This followed a recent Greenpeace report that found that about 43% of the excavators seen operating in Indigenous territories there were from Hyundai. “The Hyundai announcement is extremely important, not only in […]
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With its president more politically isolated and under fire for high rates of Amazon deforestation, Brazil is looking for ways to rebrand itself at COP26
The Environment Ministry did not reply to a request for comment. 'DIFFERENT REALITY' Brazil sees COP26 as an opportunity to repair its tattered reputation on climate change, said Julia Neiva, head of environmental programs at Conectas Direitos Humanos, a non-profit following the government's preparations for the conference. While the Brazilian government did not reserve a space for presentations at COP25 in 2019, it will have an area in Glasgow.