Brazil

The year 2012 was great for the environment in Brazil. Not only did Brazil host the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), which guaranteed continued attention to the countrys environmental activities from both the government and the press, but it also played a role in achieving a solution (however controversial) to the Forestry Code debate within the country and forced the enactment of a National Policy on Solid Wastes (which theoretically led to the termination of what some considered the largest solid waste dump site in Latin America, known as Gramacho).