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Last week, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, together with the Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara and the Minister of Justice and Public Security Ricardo Lewandowski, signed the decrees approving two new indigenous lands in the territories of Bahia and Mato Grosso.The two new territories, in which members of the Pataxó and Karajá indigenous groups will live, will extend over approximately 35 thousand hectares.Thus, a total of 10 indigenous lands were approved in about a year and a half, thanks to the work of the two ministries involved and FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples)."There protection of ancestral peoples it is closely linked to the sustainability not only of our country, but of the entire planet" declared Minister Lewandowski during the meeting with the CNPI (National Council for Indigenous Policies), where the decrees were signed.«Supporting the rights of indigenous peoples means supporting the righ...

The vote of the Environment Ministers, meeting today in Brussels, puts an end to the troubled legislative process of the most divisive law of the Green Deal

With 556 votes in favor out of a total of 630, the European Parliament approved the ratification of the UN Treaty for the Protection of the Oceans, aimed at promoting the conservation of marine biodiversity in the so-called "high seas", i.e. the waters found beneath beyond national jurisdictions and covering approximately half of the entire surface of the planet.According to EU law, the Treaty will now have to be ratified by every EU member state.At present, 89 countries globally have committed to signing the Treaty, but only 4 countries – Palau, Chile, Belize and Seychelles – have already done so.At least 60 ratifications are required for it to come into force. As stated on the United Nations portal, the text – which consists of 75 articles in total – outlines a “borderless protection” of the oceans, aiming to make all States responsible for the protection of a global public good.The international agreement which yesterday obtained the app...

The Ember think tank's analysis of how electricity production has changed in European Union countries over the last five years

Over the last 50 years, oil spills from tankers at sea have decreased by more than 90%.From the peaks of the 1970s, a period in which cases of large oil spills at sea occurred up to once every almost three days, problems relating to oil disasters have in fact decreased drastically, so much so that in 2023 there were just a case of a large spill.Furthermore, the 2023 data is not a mere isolated case, but is part of a general trend of containment of the phenomenon which has been going on for decades and which since the end of the early 2000s has never seen the number of averages and large spills reach double figures.This result was made possible by international policies and scientific progress, which led to the implementation of oil plants and cargo ships which made transport and storage systems more efficient, making them also safer. Data relating to oil spills on board oil vessels are provided by International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF), which publishes a report on the...