Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation

Re:Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud inv... by j8hn on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:25PM (#46011505)

Just a reminder that Brazil bulldozed parts of the protected Amazon rainforest to build a 4 lane highway for the COP 30 climate summit this year. Thousands (50,000?) of "climate champions" burned millions of liters of fossil jet fuel flying from around the world (many on private jets), then drove on a freshly bulldozed highway through cleared Amazon land. Seems a bit ironic.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o

Brazil is also bulldozing large swaths of the rainforest to build thousands of kilometers of roads to sea ports to access trade routes with China.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-backs-hi...

Oh yeah, Lula wants rich nations to pay billions of dollars to Brazil annually to protect the rainforest.

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Re:Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud inv... by brazukadev on Saturday November 22, 2025 @07:52AM (#46014405)

Do you know that millions of people live in that jungle, the Amazon rainforest? People that need to go to work, need to transport food, goods? Lula want to end the poverty there and this won't happen without bringing a bit of "development". Thousands (not even that actually) of kilometers is nothing compared to the 7 million kilometers of PRESERVED rainforest (the biggest preserved rainforest in the world, with the costs paid mostly by Brazilians).

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Re:Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud inv... by j8hn on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:01PM (#46016750)

The "bit" of development is massive deforestation by 2030 equal to the size of the state of Florida, according to the linked Reuters article.

Lula ran on a platform to preserve the rainforest and reverse deforestation, yet his policies are leading to the catastrophic devastation of it.

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