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    Climate change and migration: a CGE analysis for two large urban regions of Latin America

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2016
    Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering migrations.
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    Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    Climate change has increasingly been recognised as the main challenge facing humanity in the coming decades. The starting point of this study is the consideration of future climate change scenarios and the uncertainties they bring. 
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    Health care facility climate change resiliency workshop

    Pan American Health Organization, 2015
    In addition to their primary roles in treating illness and injuries, health care facilities provide a first line of defence in protecting individuals and communities from the impacts of climate change.
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    Vulnerability indicators of adaptation to climate change and policy implications for investment projects

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2015
    Relevant and appropriate indicators for vulnerability at both the local levels are significant for effective adaptation to climate change.
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    Disabling the steering wheel? National and international actors' climate change mitigation strategies in Latin America

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2015
    The Latin American region holds important potential for mitigation and has a long‐standing tradition of crafting policies and drafting legislation on climate change. This article addresses the question of how Brazil, Costa Rica, and Colombia came to decide on their climate change mitigation strategies, which are based on market‐oriented policies.
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    The BRICS on the road to COP 21

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015
    The impact of the actions of the countries that constitute the BRICS goes beyond the scope of the economic sector, reaching, among others, the socio-environmental agenda through issues such as the exploitation of natural resources, land use, the promotion of rights as a crucial part of this agenda, and most of all climate change.
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    Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2016
    The starting point for this study was the consideration of future climate change scenarios and their uncertainties. In assessing the possible climate change scenarios and related impacts on family farming across Brazil’s North and Northeast regions, the main conclusion is that smallholder farmers will have to adapt to a world of increasing climate variability.
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    Integrating mitigation and adaptation in climate and land use policies in Brazil: a policy document analysis

    Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, 2016
    Brazil has taken the lead in climate policy design and implementation in Latin America with the adoption of the National Plan on Climate Change (PNMC) in 2008 and its climate change law, the National Policy on Climate Change, in 2009.
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    Changing climate, changing diets: pathways to lower meat consumption

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2015
    Demand for animal protein is growing. Global consumption of meat is forecast to increase 76 per cent on recent levels by mid-century. A ‘protein transition’ is playing out across the developing world: as incomes rise, consumption of meat is increasing. In the developed world, per capita demand for meat has reached a plateau, but at excessive levels.
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    Mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon: towards a green, sustainable and inclusive socio-economic paradigm?

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015
    In the last few decades, and especially in the wake of the recent economic crisis, the global economic landscape has been altered while developing countries, particularly those in the BRICS group, have increased their economic and political power. The recent crisis, however, is not only economic or financial; today’s world faces a major socio-environmental crisis.

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