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This research paper by the NewClimate Institute compares 2021 greenhouse gas emission projections for G20 countries up to 2030 against projections made in 2015. While absolute projected emissions have decreased and growth rates have slowed, the G20 collectively remains off track to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goals, with emissions still expected to increase slightly by 2030.

Friends of the Earth International issued a statement denouncing the 'Masacre de Guapoy', an illegal eviction of the Guaraní Kaiowá people in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, on June 24, 2022, carried out by the Military Police.

Friends of the Earth International issued a statement condemning a June 24, 2022, massacre of Guaraní Kaiowá Indigenous Peoples by military police in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, during an illegal eviction from the Tekoha Guapoy Mirin Tujury territory.

The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) report outlines a roadmap to make land transportation infrastructure in the Brazilian Amazon more sustainable. It identifies a strong link between road development and deforestation, noting that 95% of deforestation occurred within 5.5 km of roads until 2006. The report criticizes the current decision-making process for its lack of linearity and transparency, noting that 57% of primary documents for ten analyzed federal concessions were unavailable. Key recommendations include introducing a pre-feasibility phase, adopting a 'market access' approach to define indirect areas of influence, and establishing a single, georeferenced public database for infrastructure projects to better protect indigenous lands and conservation units.

This policy brief analyzes two public rural insurance programs in Brazil: the Agricultural Activity Guarantee Program (PROAGRO) and the Rural Insurance Premium Subsidy Program (PSR). The authors find that PROAGRO's design, where the government bears the risk while financial institutions operate the program, creates severe information asymmetries and moral hazard, leading to higher claim rates and increasing costs for the National Treasury. In contrast, the PSR, where private insurers bear the risk, shows greater efficiency and growth, though it struggles to reach small producers. The report recommends migrating resources from PROAGRO to the PSR, improving the training of claims adjusters, and adopting parametric insurance to reduce fraud and monitoring costs.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) analyzes two Brazilian rural insurance programs: the Programa de Garantia da Atividade Agropecuária (Proagro) and the Programa de Subvenção ao Prêmio do Seguro Rural (PSR). It examines how the design of these policies creates different incentives for producers, experts, and financial agents, arguing that Proagro's structure leads to higher information asymmetry and lower public spending efficiency compared to the PSR.

The 'Roadmap for Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon' report by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) proposes a framework to decouple land transport infrastructure from deforestation in the Amazon. The report identifies systemic failures in the decision-making process, the quality of socio-environmental studies, and transparency, offering twelve specific recommendations to improve project viability and reduce environmental risks.

The Global Shipping Watch is an open access platform designed to link maritime emissions to specific supply chain actors by matching cargo records with vessel movements from the AIS system. It aims to overcome barriers to decarbonization by providing data-driven analysis of which companies own cargo and which products are linked to emissions on specific routes.

This policy brief from the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the UK's reliance on soy imports, primarily for livestock feed, and the associated risks of deforestation and supply chain instability.

This report by Zero Carbon Analytics examines how G7 economies are exposed to cross-border climate risks due to the interconnected nature of global supply chains. It highlights that extreme weather events in production hubs—particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—can cause global price spikes, industrial production declines, and threats to food security in industrialised nations. The document argues that because manufacturing is often offshored to lower-cost regions, G7 nations must cooperate internationally to fund climate adaptation in developing countries to secure their own supply chains.

This document is a list of participants for the 53rd Meeting of the Executive Council to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, held on 14 June 2022 in Montevideo and via videoconference.

Friends of the Earth International issued a statement condemning the June 2022 assassinations of Brazilian indigenist activist Bruno Araújo Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Vale do Javari region of Brazil's Amazonas state.

Friends of the Earth International issued a statement condemning the murders of indigenous activist Bruno Araújo Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Vale do Javari region of Brazil, calling for international pressure on the Brazilian government to investigate the crimes and protect indigenous territories.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative examines the paradox of the Legal Amazon, a region that generates over 25% of Brazil's electricity via large hydroelectric plants but where millions of residents remain disconnected from the National Interconnected System (SIN). These populations rely on expensive, polluting diesel-powered isolated systems or lack reliable electricity entirely, a situation linked to poor socioeconomic indicators and inefficient auction models for energy supply.

This discussion paper by the Climate Bonds Initiative proposes the certification of short-term debt instruments—defined as those with a maturity at issuance of less than 365 days—to mobilize more capital for climate action. It argues that while green bond standards have historically focused on longer-term debt, the USD55tn short-term debt market represents a significant untapped source of green capital. The paper outlines how various instruments, including Commercial Paper and Green Repos, can be certified under the Climate Bonds Standard, primarily through the Use of Proceeds (UoP) principle, and recommends the development of a 'pure-play' entity definition to further scale the market.

This report analyzes the socio-environmental impacts of logistics infrastructure in the Legal Amazon, Brazil, noting that such projects often drive deforestation and carbon emissions while providing limited local benefit. It proposes replacing inconsistent geographic-based 'area of influence' delimitations with a 'market access approach' based on transportation costs and market size. Using the BR-319 highway as a case study, the report demonstrates how this approach identifies a much larger area of risk, including numerous indigenous territories and conservation units, and recommends that the Ministry of Infrastructure integrate these assessments into the earliest stages of project planning.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative explores financial aggregation as a strategy to overcome barriers to urban climate finance. It defines financial aggregation as the use of instruments or enterprises to combine multiple investments, participants, projects, or sectors to scale up financing for urban climate mitigation and adaptation. The document details supply-side and demand-side aggregation models, provides case studies from various global regions, and outlines the necessary enabling environments and stakeholder recommendations to implement these strategies.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative analyzes how Brazilian mining regulations, specifically the distinction between industrial mining and 'garimpeiro' (artisanal) mining, are being exploited by cooperatives to conduct industrial-scale operations under a weaker regulatory framework. It argues that two February 2022 presidential decrees further exacerbate this contradiction by providing incentives and simplified licensing to these cooperatives, which often operate on a larger scale than major industrial mining companies in the Amazon.

This research paper by the Green Economy Coalition proposes a structural agenda for a green economic recovery from COVID-19. It defines green structural reforms as systemic, long-lasting, and general-purpose interventions, contrasting them with short-term stimulus measures. The document provides a nested framework of ten high-level reform measures and a comprehensive set of prioritisation criteria (conventional, advanced, and systemic/political) to help governments move beyond emergency triage toward long-term socio-ecological transformation.

A June 2022 briefing by the Climate Action Tracker reporting that progress on updating 2030 climate targets has stalled following the Glasgow Climate Pact. The document warns that current targets and policies are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C, projecting end-of-century warming of 2.4°C based on 2030 targets and 2.7°C under current policies.