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EU-CELAC summit: 450+ organisations call to stop toxic EU-Mercosur deal

A coalition of more than 450 organisations from Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, peasants, social movements, animal activists and environmentalists criticised the announcement by leaders from the EU and Mercosur countries that they aim to resolve outstanding issues and conclude the EU-Mercosur trade agreement by the end of 2023. Lis Cunha, Greenpeace Germany …

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How the agribusiness counteroffensive threatens Brazilian environmental policy

In the first six months of 2023, deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado reached record levels. This is largely canceling out any progress made in the Amazon rainforest. As President Lula took ambitious measures to reduce deforestation in the Amazon, agribusiness shifted its predatory activities to the Cerrado, a territory with lower environmental protection and seen …

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How the toxic EU-Mercosur deal will undermine Brazil’s climate & deforestation goals

This February, deforestation in the Amazon reached a new record high.   2021 was supposed to mark the start of the implementation of Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement to limit global heating. But instead, gross emissions have risen 40% since the Paris Agreement.  Our new factsheet, produced with Reporter Brasil, exposes …

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New video shorts on toxic impact of agribusiness in Brazil

“Poison rained down on us for years. We are constantly threatened by the growth of agribusiness.”

The people and lands of Brazil are facing a legacy of destruction. Four years of Bolsonaro’s aggressive anti-environmental presidential agenda sparked skyrocketing levels of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, rural conflicts and contemporary slave labour.

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