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 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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What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York’s Office-to-Apartment Boom eyesonbrasil For a few tense hours last week, a chunk of Midtown Manhattan went dark. Streets closed. Nine buildings evacuated. A “frozen zone” stretched from 40th to 45th Street between First and Third Avenues. The cause: two buckled steel columns on the 21st floor…
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Why Lula Won’t Sign On to Latin America’s New War on Cartels eyesonbrasil When the leaders of Mercosur gathered in the Paraguayan city of Luque at the end of June 2026, organized crime dominated the agenda almost as much as trade. Bolivia’s president called for a new South American security architecture. Brazil’s own president, Luiz…
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Inside Flávio Bolsonaro’s Mission to Washington — and Lula’s Bet That It Backfires eyesonbrasil There’s a particular kind of political theater that only works when both sides need the audience to believe something different about the same scene. That’s roughly what’s been playing out between Brasília and Washington for the past month, as Senator Flávio…
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eyesonbrasil For months, the working assumption in Brazilian legal circles was simple: Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice who has become Donald Trump’s favorite Brazilian villain, would simply not show up. He’d let the clock run out on a private lawsuit filed against him in a Tampa, Florida court, absorb a default judgment nobody…
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