André Cabette Fábio

Correspondent at Thomson Reuters Foundation

Correspondent at Context

repórter 🧐 @trf @ContextNewsroom @ContextClimate autor de "Reinvenção do garimpo no Brasil" https://t.co/gSWWlbPUo1

Articles

Brazil's Cerrado, Amazon may be next victims of US-China trade war

2 weeks ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? U.S.-China trade dispute could fuel farm expansion and deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado savannah and Amazon rainforest. RIO DE JANEIRO - U.S. President Donald Trump's chaotic tariff war could boost appetite for Brazil's farm goods as China seeks to substitute U.S. agricultural imports, with potentially negative environmental consequences.
Q&A: Brazil's COP30 CEO on Trump’s impact and forest arson

1 month ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? Despite the U.S. climate retreat and the risk of forest arson, the chief executive of COP30 sees the transition to sustainability as inevitable. RIO DE JANEIRO - As fossil fuel burning and global temperatures continue to reach records, Brazil is preparing to host the COP30 U.N. climate change conference in November in Belém in the Amazon rainforest, which is suffering its third year of drought.
This Indigenous fund in Brazil wants to take over nature finance

1 month ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? Around the world, the Indigenous movement is creating its own funds to manage climate and nature financing.
Camped out with Brazil's protesting Indigenous

1 month ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? In their largest annual gathering in Brasilia, the Indigenous face police gas to march on Congress for their rights. BRASILIA - Under a blue April sky in Brasilia, the skyline is cut by sculptural, air-conditioned modernist buildings. The structures are surrounded by parking lots and curving, broad avenues with concrete sidewalks. Brasilia was purposely built here, a modernist push by governments in the 1950s and 1960s largely to help occupy the country's vast interior.
Brazil's Indigenous artists use film making to fight for rights

1 month ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

An indigenous man from the Pataxo indigenous people attends the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights, in Brasilia, Brazil April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoWhat’s the context? Brazil's Indigenous movement use film and social media to promote land rights and promote culture at rally event.
Brazil prepares for third year of drought, wildfires in the Amazon

2 months ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

Smoke from a fire rises into the air in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 12, 2024. REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoWhat’s the context? After two years of record drought in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil braces for another year of wildfires.
The Amazon rainforest's fossil fuel rush

Mar 5, 2025 | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? South America's vulnerable Amazon rainforest region is a rising frontier for oil and gas drilling. RIO DE JANEIRO - At the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil's most promising oil frontier is at the centre of a dispute between environmentalists and South America's largest company.
USAID cuts threaten Amazon forest and fuel drug trade concerns

Feb 20, 2025 | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

Workers plant seedlings for reforestation at Huayquecha Biological Station near Paucartambo, Cusco December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-MendivilWhat’s the context? With cuts in U.S. funding, Indigenous-led efforts to protect the Amazon forest are in limbo.
Brazil's carbon trade takes off, but agribusiness escapes scrutiny

Feb 3, 2025 | independent.ie | André Cabette Fábio

The rules do not put a limit on emissions from farming, the country's top carbon polluting sector, which accounts for about 74% of the country's emissions. "We've missed the opportunity to bring agribusiness to a regulated sphere, which not only limits emissions, but also promotes sustainability," said Gabriela Savian, deputy director of public policy at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, IPAM.
Brazil's carbon trade takes off, but agribusiness escapes scrutiny

Jan 31, 2025 | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

A Black Jaguar Foundation staffer plants a cashew tree sapling at a tree planting training event on a farm, in Santana do Araguaia, Para state, Brazil August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jake SpringWhat’s the context?