Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.
After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream
The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening climate threats and dangerously uneven Covid-19 recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are
On this episode of the Brazil Institute podcast, host Anya Prusa speaks with Ilona Szabó, the co-founder and president of the Igarapé Institute, and a recognized expert on questions of public security, crime, and violence in Brazil
This is one of a series of articles written by Young Global Leaders with action-oriented ideas to improve the state of the world by 2030
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point
From abroad, she’s urging lawmakers and the country’s Supreme Court to strike down the measures.
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho points out that while violent crime declined in the city, it increased in the rest of the state — a phenomenon reflecting the judicial decision to ban police operations in the city.
Even with deaths at all-time highs, Bolsonaro continues to undermine efforts to address the pandemic
We’re pleased to announce the shortlist for the Think Tank Awards 2020.
Ilona Szabó is competing for the Think Tanker of the Year prize
As part of this launch, the Igarape Institute is releasing a new report – The Ágora is under attack: a typology for the analysis of the closure of civic space in Brazil and in the world
At the United Nations, the world’s longest Zoom meeting is underway as presidents and prime ministers meet virtually amidst a pandemic that has killed almost a million people, an economic depression with no modern parallel, and a tide of polarization and division that threatens the social fabric in many countries.
Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous polarization and division.
Around the world, COVID-19 is accelerating polarization and division.
He said it is the president’s right to replace the federal police’s chief. “I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission,” Bolsonaro said.
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