The REDD+ Rio Muru Project, a partnership between WayCarbon and Angelim Participações S.A., covers 30,000 hectares of protected forest in the Brazilian state of Acre. Launched in August 2022, the initiative takes another step forward with the announcement of its public consultation phase, open toall stakeholders in the ecosystem such as: private companies, NGOs, researchers, investors, […]

The decarbonization journey faces several complex challenges, one of the most important being the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions outside of companies’ direct operations, or Scope 3 indirect emissions. According to a survey by CDP Latin America, only 9% of large Brazilian companies monitor emissions from their supply chain, and only 7% include climate-related […]

Cities are experiencing temperature increases at a rate twice the global average due to the urban heat island effect, according to the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program. Furthermore, data from the United Nations (UN) shows that almost 40% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are related to the construction of new buildings. This circumstance makes cities […]

Climate change disproportionately affects socially vulnerable groups. Therefore, climate action and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) are interconnected and should not be treated independently. This is what the British Government points out in the learning paper “Embedding inclusion in climate action: Lessons from the UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund Portfolio”, published in January […]

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a carbon pricing system focused on the life cycle emissions of imported products. In practical terms, it will be applied in the form of a price to be paid by European importers. In this context, companies that have relationships with the European market have doubts about how this […]