Biogas $70m funding to shake up Brazil’s energy mix

Grupo Cocal will use the funding to build a biogas production unit to distribute renewable energy to the State of São Paolo from July 2022

Atlas inks 240MW solar PPA in Brazil

The plant will have an installed capacity of 239MW, boasting 460,000 solar panels and occupying around 700 hectares of land

Enel switches on ‘South America’s largest’ wind farm

The 716MW project, which was built under an investment of €620 million, is the company’s largest wind facility

New partnership to promote sustainable finance in Brazil

The Brazilian Federation of Banks and the International Finance Corporation will work together to support banks in implementing good climate risk management practices and training new businesses in making green investments

Vestas bags 534MW order for ‘largest wind project in Latin America’

The order will support the second stage of a wind park complex of more than 1GW

UK Government launches £16m package to protect Amazon rainforest

The investment is part of the Partnerships for Forests programme, which aims to help farmers restore a rainforest area equal to the size of 1,680 football pitches

Petrobras commences oil and gas production near Brazil’s Búzios oil field

The company will utilise the P-70 floating, production, storage and offloading platform for the oil and gas production

US ethanol exports witness ‘first dip in four years’

Brazil, Canada and India remain the largest import markets of US ethanol, despite registering a demand shortfall in 2019

Brazil welcomes its ‘largest solar plant’ with £143.5m investment

The solar plant will produce enough energy to supply a city of 1.4 million inhabitants

Amazon’s indigenous people ‘at risk as deforestation surges in tribal lands’

Advocacy group Instituto Socioambiental notes between January and October this year, more than 24,000 hectares of forest were cleared illegally within indigenous lands