Highlights

16 de January de 2025 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Climate By Storm Design

Leveraging synergies: How BRICS can drive biodiversity and climate solutions

The Igarapé Institute´s newest report unveils BRICS’s potential to play a key role in reforming global governance and addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis. BRICS should deepen cooperation, leveraging existing innovations in areas like renewable energy and biodiversity conservation. The New Development Bank (NDB) should be further empowered

28 de October de 2024 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Climate Security, Climate, Nature By Storm Design

IAPB launches Biodiversity Credit Markets Framework at COP16

CALI, Colombia: The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB) today launched its Framework for high integrity biodiversity credit markets. The Framework lays the foundation for how biodiversity credits, a financing mechanism, can be harnessed to drive much needed investment towards the conservation and restoration

3 de October de 2024 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Climate By Storm Design

From deliberation to implementation: in New York, Igarapé Institute reinforces the need to strengthen global cooperation and include environment in global climate and development agendas

Discussions, platforms, and agreements established during Climate Week must be connected to future global milestones, including the G20 and COP30 in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, October 3, 2024 - As it happens every year, New York once again hosted Heads of State, diplomats, experts, private sector

17 de September de 2024 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Climate By Storm Design

Recognized for its international presence, Instituto Igarapé advances global agendas at the UN’s Summit of the Future and New York Climate Week

With active participation in high-level discussions, Igarapé leads agendas on global governance, digital space, development financing, climate and nature, connecting the discussions in New York to upcoming global milestones, such as the G20 and COP30. Starting this week, New York City will host high-level discussions on

29 de August de 2024 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Digital Security, Uncategorized By Storm Design

New Brief Urges G20 to Bridge the Growing AI Governance Divide between the Global South and Global North

Most artificial intelligence (AI) policies and practices have been developed in and for the Global North—contributing to a growing divide between the countries that influence global AI governance and the countries that do not. If global AI governance continues to predominantly exclude the Global South,

30 de July de 2024 In Press Release, Climate Security, Security, Nature By Storm Design

FACT Applauds Announcement of New Intergovernmental Initiative to Combat Illicit Finance and Nature Crimes

New Capacity Building and Information Sharing Efforts Will Help Protect the Amazon WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition welcomes the recent announcement by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen of the new Amazon Region Initiative Against Illicit Finance, which will target the proceeds

20 de June de 2024 In Press Release, Climate By Storm Design

IDB Report Shows the Potential of Bioeconomy to Reverse Deforestation in the Amazonian Region

A new report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Igarapé Institute examines the bioeconomy of eight Amazonian countries and showcases opportunities to create sustainable economic alternatives for the almost 50 million people living in the region. The report provides new insights on ways

9 de May de 2024 In Press Release, Homicide Monitor, Citizen Security By Storm Design

Where are the world’s most homicidal cities in 2023?

May 2024 Recent findings from the Homicide Monitor demonstrate that Latin American and Caribbean cities exhibit persistently high homicide rates compared to other regions. Cities are powerful indicators of the progress of nations. When cities prosper, so do the prospects of countries. When they suffer from fragility,

30 de October de 2023 In Press Release, Climate Security, Citizen Security By Storm Design

Research reveals the violent daily life that has already victimized 765 defenders of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 10 years.

Research reveals the violent daily life that has already victimized 765 defenders of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 10 years. The Igarapé Institute's report presents the challenges of the region in the voices of women leading the fight for the environment and human rights. In-depth interviews

14 de November de 2022 In Press Release, International Cooperation, Climate Security, Climate and Security media By Storm Design

“Climate change could force hundreds of millions of people to move,” warns Igarapé Institute in a new Global Futures Bulletin

A new report from the Igarape Institute delivers a snapshot of the scope and scale of the migration and displacement challenges ahead Rising temperatures and extreme weather are increasingly determining where and how people live. Heat waves, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, and storms can trigger sudden evacuations

23 de March de 2022 In Press Release, International Cooperation By Storm Design

Ilona Szabó joins high-level advisory board to the UN Secretary-General

Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked with

26 de October de 2020 In Press Release, International Cooperation By Storm Design

Igarapé Institute launches a new initiative to reclaim civic space from authoritarianism

As part of this launch, the Igarape Institute is releasing a new report - The Ágora is under attack: a typology for the analysis of the closure of civic space in Brazil and in the world