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Brazil’s oil exports and exploration cast a shadow on its green ambitions

2 weeks ago | dialogue.earth | André Duchiade

Last year, oil overtook soy as Brazil’s main export for the first time since 2012. According to trade data published by the government, foreign oil sales totalled almost USD 45 billion in 2024, passing soy’s USD 43 billion. The value of Brazil’s crude oil exports has more than doubled in the past five years, and has close to quadrupled in the past decade. China is driving this demand.
Las exportaciones y exploraciones petrolíferas de Brasil opacan sus ambiciones ecológicas

2 weeks ago | dialogue.earth | André Duchiade

El año pasado, el petróleo superó a la soja como principal producto de exportación de Brasil por primera vez desde 2012. Según los datos comerciales publicados por el gobierno, las ventas al exterior de petróleo ascendieron a casi 45.000 millones de dólares en 2024, superando los 43.000 millones de la soja. El valor de las exportaciones brasileñas de crudo se ha más que duplicado en los últimos cinco años y casi cuadruplicado en los últimos diez.
Q&A: Greater transparency can make fisheries fairer

4 weeks ago | dialogue.earth | Daniel Cressey

Fish are a vital source of protein for many people. Unfortunately, they are a source of local and international conflict for many people, too. These conflicts typically arise from who is catching which fish, where and how they are catching them, and the quantities being caught. However, such details can be surprisingly hard to discern.
Theatre review: Kyoto

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Neil Simpson

Would you pay to watch a dramatisation of a series of summits, during which world leaders argue about carbon emissions? I extend my sympathies (and respect) to this play’s marketing department. Fortunately, the creative minds behind Kyoto know how to captivate an audience. Travelling back to the 1980s and 1990s, Kyoto charts the path to the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark 1997 international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Latin America readies new UN climate plans as emissions rise

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Fermin Koop

Every five years, parties to the Paris Agreement on climate change must submit action plans that increase their level of ambition in meeting its goal: to halt the average global temperature rise at 2C above pre-industrial levels, if not 1.5C. The current slate of submitted plans, which cover targets to be met by 2030, are only sufficient to halt the heat at somewhere between 2.6C and 3.1C.
América Latina prepara nuevos planes climáticos mientras aumentan las emisiones

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Fermin Koop

Cada cinco años, los países firmantes del Acuerdo de París sobre el cambio climático deben presentar planes de acción que aumenten su nivel de ambición para cumplir su objetivo: detener el aumento medio de la temperatura mundial en 2°C por encima de los niveles preindustriales, si no en 1,5°C. Los planes vigentes, que abarcan objetivos a cumplir para 2030, solo bastan para frenar el calentamiento en algún punto entre 2,6°C y 3,1 °C.
Life after Kenya’s floods of 2024

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Jacinta Mutura

In the shadow of the Nairobi skyline, the sprawling, informal settlement of Mathare bears the scars of nature’s fury colliding with vulnerable humans. The March-to-May rainy season of 2024 brought torrential downpours that devastated this community along the Mathare River, claiming lives and property. On 24 April, floods swept through the Kenyan capital’s second-largest slum.
Analysis: Can Bangladesh’s single-use plastic crackdown succeed?

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the production, import, marketing and use of polythene bags, a type of single-use plastic bag. The ban, made through the Bangladesh Environment Conservation (Amendment) Act, was seen as a major environmental milestone. Yet by 2020, per capita plastic consumption had tripled from 3 kg in 2002 to 9 kg, according to a 2021 World Bank study.
Trump cuts swathe through ocean science and conservation

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Daniel Cressey

A seemingly continuous series of budget cuts and firings from the US government have left those working on ocean issues reeling in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Since taking power on 20 January, Trump and his ally, the tech-billionaire Elon Musk, have overseen swingeing cuts to the workforces of key federal bodies, and slashed overseas and domestic funding for research and aid projects. Critics say this has caused huge harm to global health and the environment.
Thailand ‘bringing back the bad old days’ for fisheries, say activists

1 month ago | dialogue.earth | Tyler Roney

Jirasak “Boot” Meerit left school before he was a teenager to become a fisher alongside his father. When he started a family, Meerit bought his own boat and set out to catch blue crab and spotted mackerel in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, western Thailand. “There was fierce competition for marine resources in my day already, because large-scale commercial fishing boats were not well regulated,” Meerit says. The industry was also rife with fabricated fishing permits and destructive gear, he adds.