Brazil’s UN climate summit chief has defended oil and gas production as being compatible with international efforts to limit ...

Brazil is in danger of losing its vote at the cash-strapped United Nations if it does not pay some of the $400 million it owes by the end of the year, UN and Brazilian officials said ...

Brazil's energy minister on Monday said a UN decision to recognize the environmental benefits of multicropping in producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) was a victory for the South American country ...

A United Nations employee cleans the microphones at the lectern after Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who has openly said he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, spoke to the U.N. General ...

With Covid-19 and the environment at the top of the agenda at this year’s United Nations’ General Assembly, observers braced for the first world leader to speak in the UN headquarters ...

After backing out of hosting the 2019 U.N. climate summit, Brazil is now canceling a United Nations climate change event that was to be held in August in the city of Salvador.

Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host a large UN conference on climate change next year, leading environmental groups to question the government’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions.

Despite its critical role in protecting the Amazon rainforest, Brazil will not endorse a global anti-deforestation initiative being announced at the U.N. climate summit, complaining it was left ...

In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas ...

Access to Abortion Services (articles 6 and 24) Abortion in Brazil is criminalized except in cases of rape, risk to the pregnant person's life, and, following a 2012 Supreme Court ruling, cases of ...

With Covid-19 and the environment at the top of the agenda at this year’s United Nations’ General Assembly, observers braced for the first world leader to speak in the UN headquarters ...

With Covid-19 and the environment at the top of the agenda at this year’s United Nations’ General Assembly, observers braced for the first world leader to speak in the UN headquarters ...