Along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, cacao produced in agroforestry systems combines income generation, forest conservation, and the restoration of degraded areas.
A pillar of mobilization and engagement, Vozes is a space for dialogue that encourages the participation of civil society organizations in the construction of campaigns and actions in favor of the climate.
Recognized as a think tank committed to the promotion of public policies for a low carbon economy in Brazil and the world, the E+ Energy Transition Institute began its activities as an organization created at iCS.
MAPA has created a program to recover 40 million hectares of degraded areas in nine states, with support from iCS and its partners, with a goal of doubling the area of food production in the country without deforesting native vegetation.
Nature is at the center of the debate to combat climate change. At Climate Week in New York in September 2024, iCS and partners launched the Nature Investment Lab (NIL).
According to a popular saying, unity is strength, and practice corroborates this by showing that unity also generates energy. This is the reality of the Sustainable Favela Network (RFS), which is an organization that works for climate justice and seeks solutions in the favelas for the favelas.
People can save a forest. And it is their responsibility to save the forest that stores 49 billion tons of carbon* and influences the climate of the entire planet. These are the certainties of the Amazônia de Pé [Standing Amazon], which is a mobilization that takes place in the five regions of Brazil in order to protect the Amazonian biodiversity, populations, cultures and ancestries.
In February 2023, Judge Mara Elisa Andrade, head of the Seventh Federal Environmental and Agrarian Court of Amazonas, rejected the request made by farmer Dauro Parreira de Rezende, a defendant in a deforestation case, who asked that the amount of the fine imposed on him be recalculated. Accused of illegally deforesting 2,400 hectares in an agro-extractive settlement project in the south of the state, he was fined R$ 63.5 million.
What do the countryside and the city have in common? Neither will survive the effects of climate change unscathed, and both need to rethink the impacts they cause on the environment. It was with this provocation that iCS established a partnership with the National Confederation of Rural Workers and Family Farmers (Contag), which brings together more than 4,000 unions in all the federative units and works to guarantee and expand the rights of 15 million rural workers.