Can Brazil become the world’s first environmental superpower?
Brazil would not be the first nation to become rich from its resources - but its challenge is to compete economically without destroying its environment
Categories: Brazil Tags: Analysis, Article, Brazil, Damian Carrington, Energy, Environment, Forests, World news
First Amazon bridge to open world’s greatest rainforest to development
A new bridge has come to symbolise Brazil's most challenging and urgent issue: balancing the demands of economic development with environmental protection
• Interactive: Brazil's Manaus-Iranduba crossing
• Can Brazil become the world's first environmental superpower?
Categories: Amazon, News about Brazil Tags: Article, Brazil, Carbon emissions, Conservation, Damian Carrington, Environment, Forests, News, World news
Funding, infighting and forests – the Brazilian view on climate change
Brazil's special ambassador for climate change, Sergio Serra, offers an insider's view as negotiators gather in Bonn for another round of talks
Categories: Brazil, News about Brazil Tags: Article, Blogposts, Brazil, Climate change, Damian Carrington, Deforestation, Environment, Environment blog, Forests, World news
Iran stoning woman offered asylum by Brazil’s president Lula
Offer raises hopes Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, will be spared
Categories: News about Brazil Tags: Article, Brazil, Human rights, Iran, Law, News, Rory Carroll, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Tom Phillips, World news
Points of culture: what Brazil can teach Britain about art
A series of debates at the Southbank Centre shows how Brazil understands things that supposedly 'developed' countries don't – not least about the transformative social power of art
Categories: Brazil Tags: Art, Art and design, Article, Blogposts, Brazil, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Communities, Culture, Gangs, Jude Kelly, Music, Poverty, Social enterprises, Social exclusion, Society, World news