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IPAM in the Media

The IPAM in the media section shows the repercussions of our projects and activities on national and international press. Contact us for doubts, interviews requests or clarifications at comunicacao@ipam.org.br

04.17.2012 - Can We Make Enough Food To Eat Without Cutting Down All The Trees?

Co.EXIST - Brazil has pulled off an environmental coup. Amazon deforestation is down 78% from its 2004 peak, while agricultural production continues to climb. How does a country that lost millions of hectares of forest every year to cattle ranchers and soy farmers turn things around in less than a decade? Read the complete article



03.29.2012 - Organization proposes to use carbon credit to help producers

G1 Natureza - Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), organization that works for the biome sustainable development, has released this Wednesday (28) an analysis that shows a new strategy for keeping the forests standing and for reducing climate change. Read the complete article

03.28.2012 - Farm focus for saving trees

Nature - The principle is seductively simple: to reduce carbon emissions, leave tropical forests standing. But a widely heralded approach in which rich nations would pay poorer ones to keep their forests intact has proved trickier to deploy than many had hoped. Now a consortium of scientists, environmentalists and industries is expanding the focus from preserving forests to tackling the main driver of deforestation: agriculture. Read the complete article

03.22.2012 - Paulo Moutinho from IPAM: Amazon might be folly-bound without a REDD national strategy

Exame - Recent news that indigenous people allegedly have sold rights over their lands on amazon forest to an Irish carbon credit company has caused ado and questionings about the conditions on which these contracts were signed. However, this is not the first time something similar happens. Funai registers at least 30 similar deals among foreign groups and region’s tribes, the majority of which incurs in major juridical problems, once the country does not have a REDD national regime. REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Read the complete article

03.08.2012 - National guidelines for an emissions reduction program

Fapesp Agency - Brazil is the only country in condition of putting into practice the program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), mechanism by which nations that reduce deforestation could sell carbon credits in the international market. Because of that, the Brazilian government could present guidelines on the theme until the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (RIO+20), which will be held in June in Rio de Janeiro. Read the complete article

02.23.2012 - Study shows that the strengthening of green economies can contribute in keeping the forests standing

Instituto CarbonoBrasil - Scientific studies have sought to gain deeper knowledge about the ways of using and sustainably extracting natural and abundant resources of the amazon forest, focusing on keeping the forests standing, the economic development and valuing sociocultural knowledge. Read the complete article

01.17.2012 - Publication “Native Forests for Brazilian Production” is an alert on Brazil’s capacity to meet the demand for wood in a sustainable way

Ecodebate - The production of wood coming from the Amazon in private areas keeps declining, and if the pace of the last years is kept – in a conservative perspective - in two decades the production should be of 5 million cubic meters, when the demand should be of 21 million cubic meters. Read the complete article

01.16.2012 - Reduction of deforestation with increase in agricultural production

FAPESP Agency – The production of soy in Mato Grosso has increased in more than 30% between 2006 and 2010, going from 15.6 million to 20.5 million tons. Along this growth in agricultural production, deforestation in the state, responsible for 31% of soy produced by the country and has led the cutting of trees in the Amazon in the beginning of the decade of 2000, has also decreased 30% in the same period, reaching 850 km² in 2010 – representing 11% of their historical mean of 7.600 km² registered between 1996 and 2005. Read the complete article



12.14.2011 - Family production will count with BNDES investment

ORM Website (O Liberal) - The project “Sustainable Settlements in the Amazon: The Challenge for a Transition of Family Production in the Frontier to a Low Carbon Economy”, coordinated by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), was approved in December 6 by the Amazon Fund, managed by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), whose objective is to reduce Brazilian emissions, caused by deforestation, through conservation and sustainable use of the Amazon biome. The project, which should last up to five years, will be the first Fund project specifically designed for actions regarding Incra settlements. Read the complete article

12.12.2012 - Amazon Fund approves IPAM Project that will benefit more than 2,700 families of settlers in the Pará State

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12.07.2011 - Marina Silva criticizes approval of Forest Code by the Senate

Valor Econômico - The voting of the Forest Code in the Senate, yesterday night, has had strong repercussion in the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa. “The text approved in the Senate has reduced protection to the forest, amnestied deforesters and increased deforestation”, says the former minister of the Environment Marina Silva in a thoroughly attended press conference. “The Brazilian commitment of reducing greenhouse gases emissions is being threatened.” Read the complete article


11.17.2011 - Attorneys identify "setback" in the project being processed in the Senate

Valor Econômico - Brazil is known for formulating laws that don’t “catch”. One of them is the 1965 Forest Code, considered by many specialists only as “adequate” to the countries’ necessities, failing to deliver many of its goals, especially regarding the deforestation issue. Now, the National Congress is preparing to invert the logic and make the law worse, with a new Code that, in the opinion of attorneys and environment defenders, it is clearly a setback regarding the current law. Read the complete article

09.08.2011 - Geopolitics of hunger

Fórum Magazine - On September 7, 2000, during one of the debates carried in the Millennium Conference, at the UN headquarters, New York, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, then president of the Republic of Cuba, made the most scathing speech of the day. However, what impressed the world was not the powerful voice or the famous eloquent oratory of the ancient communist, but the information he hammered into the ears of millions that were watching, through radio or TV all over the planet. “820 million people are starving in the world, 790 million of these live in the Third World”, said Fidel. Read the complete article


08.25.2011 - Indigenous launch manifest against the risk of “green business”

Deutsche Welle - Indigenous frequently have difficulties in getting themselves heard. “Most authorities ignore our traditional knowledge, which comes from our ancestral, they think it’s non-sense. But we want to show that we understand everything that it’s happening. We want to collaborate with the entire process of discussion regarding the climate crisis and we have a lot to contribute”, guarantees Sônia Guajajara, from COIAB (Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon). Read the complete article


08.23.2011 - Do you know what Geoprocessing is? 


Ciência hoje - Have you ever wanted to get to a place you didn’t know and look for the way in the internet? A street map helped you, right? But do you know how it was built? We are talking about a geoprocessing tool. Read the complete article





07.28.11 -  Indigenous look on climate change is guideline’s theme

Ecodebate - A guideline was just published on climate change that shows a different look on the theme. Produced by 29 students of the Indigenous Formation of Amazon Center (CAFI, in Portuguese), the guideline seeks to translate the complexity of the theme for readers that live in the context of amazon villages. Read the complete article


07.17.11 - Unprotected Forests

Estadão - A total of 34% of the 310 unities of federal conservation, such as parks, national forests and reserves, have only one or two effective servers currently employed. Other 25 unities have none. Read the complete article