SOUTH AMERICA

7 domains mapped · Code: BR

These are jurisdiction-specific research-progress records. They expose first moves, likely actors, and institutional infrastructure where mapped; they are not a claim that every country has a finished statutory memo for all 61 domains.

Canonical domain beta-W from Deforestation & Industrial Logging. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil's Forest Code already requires 80% Legal Reserve in the Amazon biome — the law to reduce Axiom 1 exists. Enforcement is the gap. When enforcement is strong (2004–2012), deforestation drops 80%.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Mining & Rare Earth Extraction. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil is a large iron ore producer, and the collapse of Vale's tailings dams at Mariana (2015) and Brumadinho (2019) killed roughly 290 people and poisoned the Doce and Paraopeba river basins while the company kept booking export revenue. Upstream dams are a known, replaceable engineering choice, so the deaths and river contamination were a structural choice, not a law of geology.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Oil & Gas Extraction. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Petrobras's pre-salt fields are a state-controlled revenue engine, yet plans to drill at the Foz do Amazonas basin near the mouth of the Amazon and continued flaring expose coastal ecosystems and the climate to costs the company's revenue does not carry. Because the federal government holds golden-share control of Petrobras, the drilling and emissions trajectory is set by policy choices that can be reversed.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Industrial Agriculture Methane. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil runs one of the largest commercial cattle herds on earth, and enteric methane plus pasture expansion are a leading share of national emissions while JBS, Marfrig and Minerva book global beef revenue. Because the deforestation-cattle supply chain is traceable through CAR land records and slaughterhouse agreements, the methane and land-clearing costs can be tied back to specific operators.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Gambling. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil legalized and licensed online sports betting (the 'bets') in 2024-2025, and billions of reais now flow out of low-income households, with reports of Bolsa Familia welfare transfers being spent on betting apps. Because the entire licensing regime is new and centrally administered by the Ministry of Finance, harm controls can be written into the rules before the market hardens.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Ultra-Processed Food. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil pioneered the NOVA classification and its own dietary guidelines warning against ultra-processed food, yet consumption of sugary drinks and packaged snacks keeps rising alongside obesity and diabetes, with multinational and domestic manufacturers booking the revenue while SUS carries the chronic-disease bill. Because Brazil already has the science (NOVA), front-of-pack labeling rules and a public health system tracking the cost, the policy levers exist and just need teeth.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

Canonical domain beta-W from Tobacco. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.

PRIMARY ROUTE:Brazil is a large tobacco-leaf producer and exporter, concentrated in the southern states, where contract farming locks smallholders into debt and exposes them to pesticide and green-tobacco-sickness harm while manufacturers and exporters capture the margin. Because Brazil is a strong FCTC party with an established crop-diversification program, the smallholder trap can be reformed through existing channels.

4 actor-lane actions mapped

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