↗BrazilAn Environmental Report Card

By: Grace Bartow

Environmental Report CardsSupporting Research

In order to properly grade and classify an environmental issue it would be important to:

• Fully understand the topic

• Dig deep on the opinions of the people affected by it

• Look at it from different points of view

During the process of writing this report I used many cities including government cites like the CIA World factbook

INTRODUCTION

● It is located on the right side of South America and takes up most of South America.

● It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the countries of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname.

● They have a federal republic for a government. ● Brazil’s flag is green, with a gold diamond, and a

blue circle.

INTRODUCTION

• According to Dictonary.com a developing country means “a country having a standard of living or level of industrial production well below that possible with financial or technical aid; a country that is not yet highly industrialized.”

• Brazil is considered a developing country meaning it is not fully developed but is working to become a more industrialized nation

• Countries like Korea and the Solomon Islands are at the same stage of development

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS

• Brazil has many natural resources including:

• Bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, rare earth elements, uranium, petroleum, hydropower and timber

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS

• Key Water Issues and Challenges

• Brazil is ranked 68th in the world for drinking water that is available. Even though Brazil has more freshwater than any country in the world, it still has high water stress

● Water resources and population are unevenly distributed

● Recurring droughts in northeast and flooding in the south

● Deforestation● Wetland degradation

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS

• Key Water Issues and Challenges

• In Brazil the percent of the population that is poor does not have access to clean drinking water

• proportion of population using improved sanitation facilities 81%

• Air and water pollution

• Land degradation caused by improper mining

Energy in Brazil

● Brazil uses energy like Petroleum, Coal, Natural

Gas

• In Brazil only 98.93% of the population has access to energy

• The total amount of fossil fuel used in Brazil is 54.57%

• Brazil uses 7.71% of imported energy.

Deforestation

• From 1988 to 2014 the percentage of deforestation in Brazil has gone from around 25,000 sq. km to 400,000 sq. km. This picture shows an area of

Brazil's forests after deforestation

● Make lands for urbanization

● Commercial agriculture● Brazil is making a good

amount of money for selling the woods

The Trans-Amazonian Highway

This picture shows the deforestation around the highway, the light green is the deforestation

• Not only did this highway boost deforestation in Brazil, but has opened it up to logging, illegal logging, squatting and many more illegal and legal activities that are terrible for the Amazon Forest.

Deforestation Solutions

• Over the past two decades Brazil has done a great deal to improve their environment, especially when it comes to deforestation.

• The Challenge• Economic growth or the preservation of Amazon rainforest

• The Solution• Protected areas accounting for nearly 60% of total terrestrial conservation• Protected areas now cover nearly 44% of the Amazon—an area larger than

Greenland

Waste In Brazil

• Almost two-thirds of Brazil’s population uses landfills which pollutes the area

Brazil produces more than 161,000 tons of solid waste a day

80% of Brazil’s Municipalities use less than 5% of their budget on waste management services

Waste Solutions

● One solution is to develop Sanitary landfills.

● They are better than unsanitary landfills

● A sanitary landfill has a base of clay and and then waste takes layers of compacted waste and covers them with layers of earth. When the landfill is full, a cap is applied to close it.

Priority Actions

As of right now, it looks as if Brazil will continue to have a steady population and steady

population growth, which means

● it will need more area for people to live in. This means that the

● problems of deforestation and waste management will need to be addressed

● Loss of the Amazon will worsen the problem of global warming.

● Sustainable living and sustainable development need to be priorities for the people

of Brazil.