The contamination of rivers and seas caused by the lack of public policies for the management, treatment and disposal of garbage, especially industrial and hospital waste, as well as a lack of investments in new technologies to produce clean energy, recycle materials and provide environmental education for conscious consumption, proves that - in terms of climate change - simply planting trees or reducing deforestation isn’t enough. We need to go much further.

The possibility alone

 is a cause of

concern for

environmentalists

in Congress.

 

Staff members from

the Ministry

of Science, Technology,

Mines and Energy

have studying options

for installing a new

nuclear power

plant in Brazil.

 

Wal-Mart, Carrefour and

Pão de Açúcar suspend purchases

of farms involved in the deforestation

of the Amazon. 

 

This is a commendable attitude,

 but still limited.

 

the World Bank confirms that

most of the world's deforestation occurs in Brazil

Between 2000 and 2005,

Brazil deforested 31 thousand square kilometers.

water sources

between 2004 and 2008

increased by 280%.

 

The main source of

this is still the dumping

of toxic materials from agricultural

and industrial activities

that are responsible

for 90% of all

water consumption

announce the first auction of

carbon credit certificates, based on 

a contaminated area in the capital,

called the Aterro Bandeirantes

(Bandeirantes landfill).