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On the other hand, waste-to-energy industry leaders do not understand the current waste condition in Brazil. In order to provide specific solutions to problems in Brazil, the Waste to Energy Research Technology Counsel in Brazil is developing a hybrid municipal solid waste (MSW)/natural gas cycle. This system burns a small amount of natural gas ...
Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world, an invaluable wealth that is at great risk and is suffering continuous losses. [ 63 ] Jair Bolsonaro has said that foreigners should stop complaining about fires in the Amazon, [ 64 ] [ 65 ] and the country's environmental policies and in 2020 accused them of a "brutal disinformation campaign."
Brazil is one of the world's leading biofuel producers and importers. The Environment Minister also claimed that “the strategy of boosting ethanol and biodiesel production is founded on a combination of two important management tools and agricultural and environmental planning: Ecological and Economic Zoning and Agro-Ecological Zoning”. [38]
TANQUA, Brazil (AP) — Several tons of fish have died along one of the main rivers in Sao Paulo state after an alleged illegal dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant ...
Brazil, like any country in the world, faces threats to the environment. According to a survey carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 90% of Brazilian municipalities have environmental problems, and among the most reported are fires, deforestation and silting. [50]
Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters, despite concerns that reduced protection ...
Brazil's sugar and ethanol industry group UNICA said on Monday it will start to make an assessment of the situation in the fields in the coming days. ($1 = 5.4968 reais)
In 1960-1970, the country started to expand its infrastructure in empty areas of the country, to guarantee its occupation: at the time wars, colonizations and invasions of territories were common in the world, and Brazil wanted to ensure that the Amazon was not invaded by other countries on the grounds that it is an abandoned region, without human occupation.