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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

billion) to revitalise coal-fired electricity production in southern Brazil, the region which holds the country’s largest reserves of the mineral. In 2020, coal producers received 670 million reais in subsidies and, as laid out under the 2002 energy management law , the CDE should continue to subsidise them until 2027.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting. The global rate of deforestation has been cut by over half since 1990, from 7.3 Cities cover just more than half a percent of the ice-free surface of the earth. [8]