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  Improving substantive and procedural protections for indigenous rights in REDD+ projects: possible lessons from Brazil

  Afe Babalola University, 2015

  This article examines how Brazil can prepare itself for an Indigenous REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation plus) by modeling the implementation and enforcement of its current legal framework after that of Colombia.
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  Climate change governance at subnational level: key lessons for Kenya’s county governments

  University of Strathclyde, 2015

  The paper explores why subnational units should be on the forefront to tackle climate change, with examples from the states of California and Sao Paulo.
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  Towards efficient land use in Brazil

  Climate Policy Initiative, 2015

  This report focuses on the promotion of economic growth and improving ecosystem protection within Brazil’s rural landscape.
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  Impacts of good practice policies on regional and global greenhouse gas emissions

  NewClimate Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability, 2015

  This report looks at the impact of ‘good practice’ emission reduction policies in nine different areas globally and across six countries: China, Brazil, India, the US, Russia and Japan.
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  Shifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies

  Transnational Institute, 2014

  Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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  The emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping

  Transnational Institute, 2014

  Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.
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  What future for BASIC? The emerging powers dimension in the international politics of climate change negotiations

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012

  In Copenhagen 2009, the UNFCCC climate negotiations saw the rise of the emerging powers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) as they assumed a leading role in realizing the final outcome in the shape of the Copenhagen Accord.
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  Subsidies to key commodities driving forest loss

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  This working paper argues that there is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development.
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  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

  World Rainforest Movement, 2015

  The complexity of REDD initiatives from another perspective.
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  A new era in the fight against deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: opportunities to improve policy effectiveness

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2014

  The deforestation slowdown in the Amazon is one of the most important environmental success stories of recent decades, with an 83% decrease in the annual rate of deforestation from 2004 to 2012. This accomplishment has enabled Brazil to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third, while also preserving biodiversity and maintaining other vital ecosystem services.

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