Nearly half (45%) of Federal Police interventions from 2010-2021 targeted illicit acts on protected areas and indigenous lands A new study by the Igarapé institute analyzing more than 300 Federal Police operations between 2016 and 2021 found that environmental crime in the Amazon region
Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.
Exhaustive field research from Peru highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation Peru’s 70 million hectares of rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. In 2020, the country saw a record 203,000 hectares
Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that a Ukrainian national identity does not exist
The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.
The closure of civic space — the sphere between business, the State and family in which citizens organize, debate and act to influence public policies and the direction of the country — continues in Brazil. The fifth edition of Civic Space GPS bulletin consolidates an unprecedented
Researchers analyzed data from 369 the Federal Police (PF) operations carried out between 2016 and 2021 Environmental crimes are rarely committed isolated from other offenses. Amazon deforestation is not only largely illegal but also driven by a diverse array of offenders through markets contaminated with
Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity
Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked
The Igarapé Institute, together with Kenya and Switzerland, releases the artcile “The Geater Horn on the Edge: visualizing climate stress and insecurity”, a publication that draws on remote sensing and scientific literature to describe the ways the climate-security connection is shaping the
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.
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.
With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious decarbonization and adaptation promises from municipal leaders could not come soon enough
The organization releases a new video to mark its anniversary Launched ten years ago, the Igarapé Institute is more prolific and impactful than ever. On its tenth anniversary the Institute is expanding its engagement with climate security and digital security alongside public security. The
The publication “A green economy can deliver zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030” details why an end to deforestation and degradation is imperative to “protect our planet” as well as how it can be achieved. A rapid acceleration of the green economy — upon
The Igarapé Institute, in a partnership with INTERPOL, releases the “Guidance note on combating environmental crime: lessons from fighting illegal gold mining in the Amazon Basin”. The publication offers practical guidance for law enforcement, criminal justice and environmental protection authorities to better understand the scope
The publication “The case for engaging cities in the new multilateralism” analyzes the role of engaging cities in the new multilateralism.
Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change
Civic space is closing down in Brazil. Restrictions to fundamental rights are on the rise. So are the intimidation and criminalization of the dissenters and government critics. In this context, bill 1.592/2019, filed by federal deputy Vitor Hugo (PSL-GO) puts Brazilian democracy in jeopardy and
The publication “Rethiking Multilateralism – Mapping nuclear non-proliferation” maps out networked multilateralism, including in relation to nuclear non-proliferation initiatives. The principal goal is to determine if there is utility in mapping the networks that characterize state and non-state commitments to international treaties, conventions and agreements.
A series of randomized control trials in six countries evaluate whether community policing improves security A vexing question facing all countries is how they can best reduce crime and improve public security? A common response is to deploy police, including sending officers to work
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
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic risk of our time
The new stories will be available on the interactive platform EcoCrime Data; the organization will also participate in panels The Igarapé Institute releases today (November 8th) at COP26 (Glasgow) ten news stories on its EcoCrime Data platform, each of which tells a distinct tale about
The Igarapé Institute has launched an initiative to enhance transparency, traceability and legal enforcement within complex commodities supply chains. It includes the development of new approaches to analytical dimensions and metrics — combining what for some is already consolidated compliance with good practices standards that
The third Civic Space GPS Bulletin reports an increase in abuse of power
In one of the most challenging moments of Brazilian democracy since 1988, the agenda presents itself as a great call to civic engagement
The update is the result of the experience accumulated during the production of the GPS editions for the last quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021.
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