How Resource Extraction and Infrastructure Projects Are Driving the Climate Crisis in the Amazon Published: 12 February 2026 Analyse In early 2026, several thousand liters of drilling fluid leaked during a test drilling operation in the Amazon Mouth Basin. The project to extract oil off the coasts of Amapá and Pará is symbolic of Brazil's resource-driven development model, which continues to rely on large-scale agricultural, energy, and infrastructure projects. Edna María Ramos de Castro
Biodiversity Conservation: Agreement Relies on Controversial Financing Approaches Published: 3 February 2026 Analysis Controversial financing instruments have gained importance in biodiversity conservation efforts since the Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in 2022. But turning nature into an investment object will not stop the biodiversity crisis. Jutta Kill
Brazil: Violence Against Environmental Defenders in the Amazon Rises Published: 10 December 2025 Analysis The protection of environmental and human rights defenders must be decisively strengthened in the Amazon and globally. For far too often, activists are still exposed to threats and violence. Ciro de Souza Brito
COP30: Entrenching a New Era of Climate Colonialism Published: 14 November 2025 Analysis In international climate policy, false solutions are repeatedly promoted: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions. What role do they play at COP30? Tamra Gilbertson
Criminalising Ecocide: Germany's Chance to Take the Lead Published: 31 October 2025 President's column When ecosystems are destroyed by human action, there must be consequences. The EU has criminalised large-scale environmental damage. Germany now has the opportunity to take leadership – and set a positive example – by introducing a law against ecocide. Dr. Imme Scholz
COP30 in Brazil: Climate Change and the Point of No Return Published: 17 July 2025 Analysis Climate governance has been captured by solutions that involve the financialization of nature. The first COP in the Amazon is an opportunity to face the impacts of these projects, betting on the rights and territorial sovereignty of Amazonian populations. Camila Moreno
Brazil: Facts, data, and knowledge about the world's largest rainforest Published: 24 June 2025 Amazon Atlas Since its colonization, the Amazon region has served as a projection surface for foreign ideas and desires. With the Brazilian Amazon Atlas, we want to deconstruct common stereotypes about the region - and show it from the perspective of its diverse inhabitants. Dr. Imme Scholz, Marcelo Montenegro, Julia Dolce, Regine Schönenberg
Indigenous Perspectives: The Living Forest Published: 18 February 2025 Initiative Rights of nature require intercultural dialogue. Indigenous peoples actively advocate for them, but their worldviews and structures often differ from existing legal systems. Jenny García Ruales
The Rights of Nature Published: 6 February 2025 Dossier Our relationship with nature is severely disrupted. To sustainably protect people and the environment, we need new approaches – such as granting rights to nature. How can this approach be implemented and what opportunities does it offer for people and the environment?
Plastic Atlases Published: 11 November 2021 Sammlung The plastic atlas offers data and facts about a world full of plastic. Since the first German plastic atlas was published in June 2019, our international offices have published numerous other versions, both translations and regional editions. The atlases are accompanied by informative online dossiers and interesting video clips on the offices' websites. But other exciting formats have also emerged around the plastic atlas. Here is an overview.
New Economy of Nature Published: 20 October 2016 How did forests become ‚natural capital‘? Our web dossier illustrates what the concept of the „New Economy of Nature“ stands for and explains nature’s role in the Green Economy and why this approach has been of increased interest to economy and politics recently.
