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
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
Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel, the world looks anything but safe
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.
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
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.
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