Valor Econômico’s 25-year anniversary edition explores how country can lead change through Amazonian bioeconomy, along with ongoing impacts of social, technological, and political changes domestically and abroad
05/02/2025
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Big changes in the world are triggering a broad rearrangement of society and demanding solutions as innovative as the challenges created. Urgent and significant actions are critical to mitigating the impacts of the climate emergency, the world’s biggest threat now. This edition of Valor Econômico, which also commemorates its 25-year anniversary, brings a special report showing how Brazil, holding 60% of the Amazonian biome, can transition into a low-carbon economic model that protects biodiversity through bioeconomy.
Farmers and experts report on the many challenges of development based on sustainable use of the forest, and of promoting production chains connected with sociobiodiversity, as the image above shows. Captured by the lenses of photographer Araquém Alcântara, it records the day-to-day of fishers in the Middle Juruá Extractive Reserve in Amazonas state.
Socially, other stories translate to our readers the zeitgeist. Such issues as gay relationships, using frozen embryos, and digital asset inheritances have been demanding legislative changes.
Other transformations like religious conversions, entrepreneurial culture, and social media, meanwhile, are affecting political identification in Brazil.
This commemorative edition also offers a broad menu of special reports, including a one-week foray in Buenos Aires probing the actions of President Javier Milei, which have struck down inflation and pleased businesses but also triggered doubts about their social cost.
*By Daniela Chiaretti, Marli Olmos, Laura Ignacio and Cristiane Agostine — Belém, Buenos Aires and São Paulo
Source: Valor International
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