Author: Eyes on Brasil

Investing in Europe

The Redirection of Waste

Inside Brazil’s Plastic Recycling Revolution eyesonbrasil Brazil is the largest producer of plastic in Latin America, generating more than 7 million tons of the material annually. Historically, only a fraction of this volume found its way back into the production cycle, while the rest burdened municipal infrastructure or escaped into vulnerable ecosystems. Today, a paradigm…
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Brazil Peru World Cup 2026

Twenty-Four Years and Counting

Brazil’s Hunt for a Sixth Star eyesonbrasil There’s a particular kind of pressure that only Brazil carries into a World Cup. Other nations dream of a first title, or a return to relevance. Brazil carries five stars on its shirt and a question that’s grown heavier with every tournament since 2002: when does the wait…
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Eu Brazil digital

Brasília Just Signed a Deal That Could Quietly Rewire Brazil’s Digital Future

eyesonbrasil On June 12, 2026, in Brasília, two officials with long titles signed a document with an unglamorous name — the EU-Brazil Digital Partnership — and the kind of press coverage that rarely makes it past page six. No tariffs were cut. No state visit fanfare. And yet, for a country whose digital economy has…
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The Ship That Makes Its Own Fuel from Water

The Ship That Makes Its Own Fuel from Water

Brazil’s JAQ H1 is sailing into the future — powered by green hydrogen it produces onboard, leaving only water vapour in its wake. Imagine a vessel that harvests its own energy from the ocean itself — splitting the very water around it into hydrogen fuel, then sailing forward on nothing but chemistry and ambition. That…
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The Invisible Giants of the Interior

The Invisible Giants of the Interior

Microsoft’s Secret Data Centers and Brazil’s Digital Revolution Billions of dollars buried in the São Paulo countryside — and a deliberate silence about exactly where eyesonbrasil The Announcement That Wasn’t Picture the scene: February 2026, São Paulo’s sleek convention circuit buzzing with executives, developers, and journalists gathered for the Microsoft AI Tour. Priscyla Laham, president of…
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Tampa Florida

Brazil Just Showed Up in a Florida Courtroom to Defend a Judge It Says Can’t Be Sued There

eyesonbrasil For months, the working assumption in Brazilian legal circles was simple: Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice who has become Donald Trump’s favorite Brazilian villain, would simply not show up. He’d let the clock run out on a private lawsuit filed against him in a Tampa, Florida court, absorb a default judgment nobody…
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Wind hunter

The Ship That Never Needs a Gas Station

Inside Japan’s Seawater-Powered Energy Vessel eyesonindonesia There’s a viral image making the rounds: a sleek white research ship slicing through Pacific waters, its hull painted with the words “海水から、未来のエネルギーへ” — “From seawater, to the energy of the future.” The caption claims Japan has built a vessel that makes its own clean fuel and never needs…
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Carbon Credits

Carbon Credits Explained

eyesonbrasil As Kenya hosts the inaugural climate change summit, there has been much talk about carbon credits and their sale. What are they, who has them, how and where are they traded and how do they contribute to reducing the effects of climate change?

The Leaf That Could Power a Nation

South Korean scientists have created an artificial leaf that turns sunlight and water into hydrogen — no wires, no grid, no emissions. For sun-drenched Indonesia, it may be a glimpse of the future. Science & Energy Desk  ·  May 2026  ·  8 min read eyesonindonesia How the artificial leaf works A Leaf Forged in a…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

The Carbon Offset Conundrum

Is REDD+ a Green Miracle or a “License to Pollute”? eyesonindonesia In the boardroom of a multinational oil giant and in the deep canopy of the Indonesian rainforest, two very different conversations are happening about the same thing: REDD+. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was designed as a bridge between the industrial…
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