Inspirational Stories

Sustainable Production in the Amazon Facilitated by Coordinating Credit, Research, and the Market.

Along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, cacao produced in agroforestry systems combines income generation, forest conservation, and the restoration of degraded areas.

The successful strategy for the promotion of energy transition in Brazil

Recognized as a think tank committed to the promotion of public policies for a low carbon economy in Brazil and the world, the E+ Energy Transition Institute began its activities as an organization created at iCS.

Investing in nature for the good of the climate and people

Nature is at the center of the debate to combat climate change. At Climate Week in New York in September 2024, iCS and partners launched the Nature Investment Lab (NIL).

Vozes [Voices] for the democratization of COP30

A pillar of mobilization and engagement, Vozes is a space for dialogue that encourages the participation of civil society organizations in the construction of campaigns and actions in favor of the climate.

New parameters for agricultural and livestock production in Brazil

MAPA has created a program to recover 40 million hectares of degraded areas in nine states, with support from iCS and its partners, with a goal of doubling the area of food production in the country without deforesting native vegetation.

The energy that comes from the favela

According to a popular saying, unity is strength, and practice corroborates this by showing that unity also generates energy. This is the reality of the Sustainable Favela Network (RFS), which is an organization that works for climate justice and seeks solutions in the favelas for the favelas.

An entire country to maintain the standing Amazon

People can save a forest. And it is their responsibility to save the forest that stores 49 billion tons of carbon* and influences the climate of the entire planet. These are the certainties of the Amazônia de Pé [Standing Amazon], which is a mobilization that takes place in the five regions of Brazil in order to protect the Amazonian biodiversity, populations, cultures and ancestries.

The calculator that shows how much each tree is worth

In February 2023, Judge Mara Elisa Andrade, head of the Seventh Federal Environmental and Agrarian Court of Amazonas, rejected the request made by farmer Dauro Parreira de Rezende, a defendant in a deforestation case, who asked that the amount of the fine imposed on him be recalculated. Accused of illegally deforesting 2,400 hectares in an agro-extractive settlement project in the south of the state, he was fined R$ 63.5 million.