Brazil

Official portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, released by the Palácio do Planalto in 2023.

Lula calls for US$1.3 trillion a year at COP31 and says rich nations developed at the planet's expense

Opening the leaders' summit in Antalya, Brazil's president asked Turkey and Australia to carry forward the Belém roadmaps and cited a 71% drop in Amazon deforestation between 2022 and 2026

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Political violence
Survey counts 379 cases of political violence in Brazil in 27 days, with 18 deaths and ordinary voters as the main target
Fiscal adjustment
Brazil details a R$ 50 billion to R$ 60 billion fiscal adjustment for 2027 as the bill reaches the Senate
Amazon Fund
Norway pledges 600 million kroner to the Amazon Fund after Brazil posts its lowest deforestation rate on record
Health
Brazil sends R$ 524,000 to three Amazonas towns to contain measles on the Peru-Colombia border

President Lula during an address to the nation at the Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília, in April 2026.

Federal government

Lula says public debt and high interest rates worry him, and sets an investment target above 20% of GDP

The facade of the Palácio do Planalto, seat of Brazil's presidency, in Brasília, in a 2020 photo.

Energy transition

Brazil approves 18 guidelines for its fossil fuel exit roadmap and gives the drafting group 270 days

Parisite, one of the few rare-earth carbonate minerals, grown on galena in a specimen from the Mountain Pass mine in California.

Critical minerals

Lula's re-election puts Washington's hopes of quick access to Brazil's rare earths on hold

The headquarters of the Supremo Tribunal Federal, on Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília, in 2021.

Brazilian industry and retail ask the Supreme Court to delay the end of the 6x1 work schedule

Houses in the Complexo do Alemão, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, in a February 2023 photograph.

Brazil's favelas nearly tripled their built-up area in 40 years — and the green edge they once had is now a deficit

The floor of Brazil's Federal Senate, in Brasília, in October 2024.

Public security

Brazil's Senate approves public-security amendment by 73 and 75 votes and strips the age of criminal responsibility from the text

The seat of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Supreme Federal Court) on the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília, in 2021.

Brazil's Supreme Court hears 34 groups on the decree that banned online betting

Petrobras platform P-51 in a 2009 company handout image. The photo is not of the Morpho well.

Equatorial Margin

Petrobras closes Morpho well at the mouth of the Amazon after three oil discoveries in under three months

The Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional steelworks, in the background, seen from the BR-393 highway in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro state, in 2016. Integrated steel plants are in the first phase of the timetable.

Brazil orders eight industrial sectors to start measuring emissions in 2027 and leaves aviation out of its carbon market

President Donald Trump and Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oval Office in May 2026, in a photograph Trump posted on Truth Social.

Congressional oversight

Twenty-five House Democrats press Rubio on how Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro got a US visa after leaving under a court order

COP30 president, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, and COP29 president, Mukhtar Babayev, at the conference's opening at Parque da Cidade in Belém, on 10 November 2025.

Brazil presents two COP31 roadmaps on 3 November and hands climate leadership over to Türkiye

Guarani and Kaiowá leaders from Mato Grosso do Sul in a meeting with President Lula, in Brasília, in August 2024.

Political violence

Three Brazilian ministers travel to Mato Grosso do Sul over attacks on Guarani and Kaiowá people, with five deaths under investigation since 24 October

Women of the Kayapó people during a national gathering of indigenous peoples, in 2021.

Illegal gold mining

Brazilian police destroy three excavators and 19 huts at illegal gold mine inside Kayapó Indigenous Land

A NASA satellite image shows the plume of tailings from the Fundão dam collapse reaching the Atlantic through the mouth of the Rio Doce, in late 2015.

Brazil reopens fishing at the mouth of the Rio Doce, ten years after the Fundão dam collapse

A view of Nova Erechim, in western Santa Catarina, in 2007. The town recorded the state's third Newcastle disease outbreak.

Brazil confirms a third Newcastle disease outbreak in Santa Catarina, on a farm with 9,600 birds