Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%
<p>Intact tropical forests, free from substantial anthropogenic influence, store and sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon but are currently neglected in international climate policy. We show that
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Scaling up climate-compatible infrastructure: Insights from national development banks in Brazil and South Africa
National development banks (NDBs) and development finance institutions – domestically focused, publicly owned financial institutions with a specific development mandate – are poised to play a role in bridging
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Hantavirus host assemblages and human disease in the Atlantic forest
<p>Several viruses from the genus Orthohantavirus are known to cause lethal disease in humans. Sigmodontinae rodents are the main hosts responsible for hantavirus transmission in the tropical forests,
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Opportunities and risks for continued biofuel expansion in Brazil
Brazil’s advanced biofuel industry lags far behind the production capacity of its first-generation biofuel industry. Brazil’s reliance on crop-derived biofuel feedstocks, in conjunction with its vulnerable
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Brazilians reject Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan
President Jair Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan is leaving many of his fellow Brazilians distinctly unenthusiastic at the prospect not of pollution alone but also of perceptible risk. A few days ago a procession
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Brazil’s renewables capacity to grow at CAGR 6% to 2030
The overall renewable power capacity (excluding small hydropower) in Brazil is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6% from 31GW in 2018 to 60.8GW in 2030. The report titled ‘Brazil
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Dividing the water, sharing the benefits: lessons from rural-to-urban water reallocation
Rural regions are often seen as key sources of urban water supply, creating pressure for reallocation and potential hotspots of competition for water between cities and agriculture. How effective and equitable
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Brazil's mangroves on the front line of climate change
Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil's vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water
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Natural forests best bet for fighting climate change, analysis finds
Natural forests store more carbon for longer compared to plantations and agroforestry. The carbon sequestration potential of natural forests is 40 times greater than that of plantations, a new
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Powerful, 'abnormal' rains lash Rio de Janeiro, at least six dead
Torrential rains doused Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, killing at least six people and sowing chaos in Brazil’s second largest city, which declared a state of emergency after a storm that the mayor described