The capital market is a core component of the financial system, bridging the distance between investors looking for opportunities and companies or entities in need of funds for their projects. It facilitates project and business funding through the issue of securities or assets to raise funds directly in the market, offering investors the chance…
A new form of carbon sequestration has been gaining attention in the market: soil remineralization. This practice, recently introduced in Brazil through a partnership between two foreign startups — Germany’s InPlanet and the U.S.-based Terradot — in collaboration with Brazilian farmers, has drawn interest by generating carbon credits through the application of rock dust on…
August 6, 1945. The sky over Hiroshima is torn by a blinding flash, followed by a mushroom cloud rising on the horizon. Within seconds, the city is transformed into a field of ruins and ashes. Three days later, Nagasaki meets the same devastating fate. The United States reveals to the world the destructive power of…
The Rural Territorial Tax (ITR) is a tax directly related to the emergence of the Brazilian Republic and its agrarian face. ITR was introduced in the country by the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Brazil, in 1891, through its Article 9, which attributed jurisdiction over it to the federative states: “Article…
