Haiti, a Caribbean nation with a long history of upheaval, is enduring one of its worst periods of chaos. Gangs have shut down the airport; looted seaports, public buildings and shops; and attacked nearly a dozen police stations. Roads are blocked, cutting off the food
Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ecuador with official figures recording a death count of 4,800 in 2022. This is according to data from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Interior, published by the Rio de Janeiro based think tank, the Igarapé Institute. According to the Ecuadorian government’s latest estimates
On November 17, global temperatures exceeded 2°C for the first time compared to pre-industrial levels. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2023 (COP28) in Dubai, the Igarapé Institute is presenting an agenda of information and proposals to address the global climate emergency, with
Bulletin launched at COP28 details a simple and intuitive system to incentivize those who protect standing forests. The study contributes to the debate brought about by the “Tropical Forests Forever” plan announced by the Brazilian government in Dubai. The collective future, of people and
Igarapé presents a contribution to the global mechanism for the protection of tropical forests. Bulletin launched at COP28 details a simple and intuitive system to incentivize those who protect standing forests. The study contributes to the debate brought about by the “Tropical Forests Forever”
On November 17, global temperatures exceeded 2°C for the first time compared to pre-industrial levels. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2023 (COP28) in Dubai, the Igarapé Institute presents an agenda of information and proposals to address the global climate emergency, with a
Research reveals the violent daily life that has already victimized 765 defenders of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 10 years. The Igarapé Institute’s report presents the challenges of the region in the voices of women leading the fight for the environment and human
The Minister accepted Igarapé’s invitation to continue the discussions at a parallel event within the scope of the G20. In the morning of this Tuesday (19th), the Igarapé Institute, in partnership with the Amazon Concertation and the Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forest and Agriculture, welcomed
The research “We are vitórias-régias” was developed and executed with a group of 13 advocates representing the struggles of women from the Amazon basin in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Learn more about them. Click here to download as a PDF Ângela Mendes (Acre, Brazil)
Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony
The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.
If Chinese lending declines, sub-Saharan Africa’s ability to raise financing will be deeply affected.
Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.
In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian social media
Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.
Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations everywhere.
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.
A new report from the Igarape Institute delivers a snapshot of the scope and scale of the migration and displacement challenges ahead Rising temperatures and extreme weather are increasingly determining where and how people live. Heat waves, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, and storms
Exhaustive field research from Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation Because illegal deforestation does not respect borders, InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute have launched an investigation into
From the Amazon Basin to equatorial Africa and Asia, some of the world’s largest and most biodiverse habitats are facing unprecedented threats. Environmental crime has gone global, posing existential risks not just to some of the world’s signature biomes but also to the international quest
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the security in and of information and communications technologies (OEWG)
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.
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
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences
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