Fernanda Wenzel

Fernanda Wenzel é jornalista freelancer especializada em Amazônia e meio ambiente. Escreve para ((o))eco desde 2018, dedicando-se especialmente à reportagens investigativas sobre o impacto da indústria da carne na Amazônia. Baseada em Porto Alegre, esteve diversas vezes na região Norte do país para conduzir trabalhos de campo sobre desmatamento e violações de direitos de povos tradicionais. Além do ((o))eco, tem reportagens publicadas pelo Mongabay, The Intercept Brasil, Agência Pública, Folha de São Paulo, Valor Econômico, Revista Piauí e CNN Internacional.

English
11 de setembro de 2020

Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic

Between 2016 and 2020, 26 new cattle slaughterhouses were registered inside the Brazilian Amazon, bringing the total number of meatpackers in the region up to 183. This is worrisome news, given the fact that cattle farming is the largest contributing factor to deforestation in the Amazon, generates large quantities of greenhouse gases, and is responsible for one-third of cases of →

Por Fernanda Wenzel Naira Hofmeister Pedro Papini Juliana Lopes
11 de setembro de 2020
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13 de agosto de 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

In December 2015, after four years of negotiations, leaders of 195 nations decided to unite to slow down global warming. They signed the Paris Agreement, in which they committed to take measures that would contain the global temperature rise to 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Each nation defined its own targets for meeting this →

Por Fernanda Wenzel Naira Hofmeister Pedro Papini Juliana Lopes
13 de agosto de 2020
English
11 de agosto de 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Last year, journalist Débora Gastal decided to start putting aside a nest egg so she will be comfortable in her golden years. At the age of 31, she joined the 13.5 million Brazilians with a private or supplementary pension plan—an investment option in which the bank uses clients’ funds to play the financial market and generate →

Por Fernanda Wenzel Naira Hofmeister Pedro Papini Juliana Lopes
11 de agosto de 2020