Can a Swiss farmer’s forest logic save the Amazon’s edge? eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 14, 2026 – For nearly twenty years, one quiet agreement did more to slow Amazon deforestation than almost any law on the books. Signed in 2006 by the world’s biggest grain traders — Cargill, Bunge, Cofco, Louis Dreyfus — the Amazon Soy…
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eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 13, 2026 – Look closely at a satellite map of the Amazon and a pattern jumps out immediately: the forest isn’t eroding randomly. It’s eroding along an edge — a scorched, fragmented arc that traces the southern and eastern rim of the basin, spilling from Brazil into Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Deforestation…
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Why Brazil’s Voluntary Carbon Market Is Turning Heads Abroad eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 12, 2026 – Picture a stretch of Amazon rainforest the size of a small European country, standing because someone, somewhere, paid to keep it that way. That’s the quiet transaction at the heart of Brazil’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) — and it’s quickly…
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But Brazil’s Carbon Market Rules Are Still Being Written eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 9, 2026 – Deep in the farm country of São Paulo and Paraná states, trucks have been spreading a fine, dark powder across thousands of hectares of cropland. It looks like nothing special — crushed volcanic rock, the kind you might find at…
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Inside the R$2.5 Billion Bet on the Technologies Powering the Green Transition eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 31, 2026 – Brazil is making one of its clearest statements yet that it wants global capital at the table for its next industrial chapter. On July 28, 2026, the Ministry of Finance published the Operational Manual for the 5th…
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Inside the 4th Brazilian Climate and Carbon Conference eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 29, 2026 – Nine months after the world’s diplomats packed up their translation headsets and left the Amazonian heat of Belém, Brazil’s carbon market is about to get its next big stage — this time in the glass-and-concrete sprawl of São Paulo. The Conferência…
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Inside India’s First Hydrogen Locomotive eyesonbrasil From Sketch to Steel Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – On July 17, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at Jind railway station in Haryana and flagged off a train unlike any that had ever moved on Indian rails. Its name: NaMo Green Rail. Its fuel: hydrogen, stored in onboard…
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Is Brazil Ready for the Ground to Move eyesonbrasil On the night of June 24, 2026, two earthquakes tore through north-central Venezuela within 39 seconds of each other — magnitude 7.2, then 7.5, the strongest the country had recorded in more than a century. Buildings collapsed in Caracas, Valencia, and Chacao. Thousands were injured, and…
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What Belém’s New Data Center Means for Pará eyesonbrasil On the outskirts of Belém, a quiet construction site is about to become one of the most contradictory symbols of Brazil’s new digital economy. Elea Data Centers, in partnership with the energy supplier AXIA, has announced BEL1: the Amazon’s first major data center built for artificial…
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How Carbon Credits Work, and Why Brazil Holds the World’s Best Hand eyesonbrasil Somewhere in the Brazilian state of Acre, a hectare of rainforest that didn’t get cut down this year just became a financial instrument. It has a serial number, a registry entry, and a buyer somewhere in Rotterdam or São Paulo who will…
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