Extrema Conservador das Águas — Brazil's First Municipal Watershed PES
Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …
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Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …
Brazil's INSS uses an automated engine on the Meu INSS platform to grant or deny retirement and benefit claims from database records …
Brazil's 2021 federal PES law underpins Floresta+ Amazônia, a $96m Green Climate Fund scheme paying family farmers R$1,500-28,000 each to conserve forest; …
Brazil's pioneering Water Producer scheme, piloted 2008–2015 in São Paulo's Cantareira system, signed 41 PES contracts covering 342 hectares of forest restoration …
Brazil's judiciary runs Grupos Reflexivos e Responsabilizantes (GRH) for domestic-violence perpetrators, mandated under the Maria da Penha Law. A 2026 mapping counted …
Since 1995, Minas Gerais has redistributed a share of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas, dry forest or sanitation infrastructure …
Goiás's state administration secretariat (SEAD) built a Multinomial Naïve Bayes classifier to auto-sort citizen feedback on its EXPRESSO service network into a …
Brazil's financial intelligence unit, Coaf, logged 18,762 financial-intelligence reports and 2.57 million suspicious-activity communications in 2024 (up 766.6% since 2015); from 2026 …
Brazil's CGU launched Informa.BR on 30 June 2026: citizens type a plain-language information request and AI matches it against the Transparency Portal, …
Brazilian edtech Estudo Play set a Guinness World Record by having its AI grade over 461,000 handwritten student essays in 30 days …
Brazil's data authority ANPD opened a regulatory sandbox in August 2025, letting three selected firms test AI systems under direct supervision. A …
Since the 1990s, Curitiba has let landowners who preserve forest remnants sell their unused building rights to developers elsewhere in the city …
Brazil's MCTI/Softex ran Start-Up Brasil (2013-2019), a national accelerator offering R$200k non-dilutive grants and reserving up to 25% of slots for foreign …
Canopy bridges strung across a 25-30 m pipeline right-of-way in Brazil's São João River Basin protected area recorded 455 common-marmoset and 257 …
Created by Brazil's 2012 Forest Code but only operationalised in October 2025, the CRA lets landowners with surplus native vegetation sell tradable …
Two decades of cat sterilisation on Brazil's Fernando de Noronha archipelago have not curbed the feral population, estimated at 1,287 animals in …
Paraná, Brazil has used facial recognition for school attendance since 2023 (~1M students, 1,700+ schools). A 2025 UNESP audit found only 91.1% …
Sao Paulo announced in April 2024 that ChatGPT would draft digital lesson content for grades 6-12 in Brazil's largest public school system. …
Paraná's education department used facial recognition for attendance in over 2,000 public schools, covering about 1 million students. Brazil's ANPD suspended the …
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