The man in the middle was a 🇺🇦 soldier killed fighting Russian invaders last summer. When his family reburied him in his home village of Hroza, retaken last Sept from Russian occupation, Russia fired a missile to kill everyone else in this photo, plus 48 other villagers. Medieval

Safra: a family in turmoil over the will of the world’s richest banker ft.com/content/290bdd… Great reporting by Michael Pooler and Joe Miller

Wild story about the ongoing legal battle for the estate of legendary Brazilian banker, Joseph Safra. If you liked the show Succession, you are going to like this story! ft.com/content/290bdd…

Required reading here from B on the ongoing problems with voluntary carbon offsets ft.com/content/4cb934… via Financial Times

Scandal bares the problems of the Amazon carbon credit market Or as one executive in the sector said to me: "It can’t be this amateur shitshow." ft.com/content/4cb934… via Financial Times

Scandal bares the problems of the Amazon carbon credit market—The lack of clear rules for the voluntary carbon market means there is “little to no public oversight”, said Mario Braga, a political risk analyst at Control Risks. ft.com/content/4cb934… Financial Times B

"The Cerrado has always been chosen to die in place of the Amazon". Excellent work by Sam Cowie Brazil looks for more sustainable ways to grow soya ft.com/content/d444ff… via Financial Times

'A NewsGuard analysis found that "verified" accounts on X are superspreaders of misinformation about the conflict, boosting falsehoods while displaying a “verification” blue checkmark that verifies nothing' newsguardtech.com/misinformation…

"What we are trying to do with the Peruvian food is what the French accomplished over 200 years, the Italians over 100 years, the Japanese over 50 years — and we did it in 25 years" How a unique recipe took Peru to the top table of global cuisine ft.com/content/3ac93e…

O velho Brasil está voltando. ft.com/content/6bb7c8…

Financial Times relatando o que realmente acontece. ft.com/content/6bb7c8…

"An OECD report said Brazil needed “urgent key reforms”, highlighting the “limited level of enforcement”, de facto impunity and perceived threats to the independence of prosecutors" Brazil is taking worrying steps away from clean politics ft.com/content/6bb7c8…

Valor: 8 commodities account for two thirds of Brazil’s exports so far this year: soy, oil, iron ore, meat, sugar, corn, pulp & coffee. In 2000, same 8 commodities accounted for just 26% of exports. Increase in Chinese demand & deindustrialization at home cited as main factors

Amazon drought: "“Global warming is clearly making a contribution to this exceptional drought,” said Tim Lenton, chair in climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter ... " #Manaus ft.com/content/3be210… via Financial Times

How shoppers fell out of love with The Body Shop w/ William Louch and @michael_pooler ft.com/content/02e5b3… via @ft

Our latest on EU-Mercosur negotiations: the controversial side letter has been mostly discarded and Brazil given assurances on impact of EU anti-deforestation law Trade blocs ramp up talks in bid to close deal in coming weeks ft.com/content/f3d47a… via Financial Times

After Canada alleges Indian hand in Nijjar killing. Financial Times reports that US intel was concerned over possible plot against Pannun.

Brazil to propose financing plan to protect tropical forests at COP28 ft.com/content/df19b4… via Financial Times

Brazil's Carbon Emissions Fall by 8% in 2022 #politics #brazil #environmentalism #ClimateChange #BrazilianPolitics www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/… by Jéssica Maes via Folha de S.Paulo

Kissinger outlived so many people that not only did he outlive his obituary writer, he outlived the obituary writer of his obituary writer