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Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013Small-scale farmers and pastoralists knowledge and experience of coping with climatic extremes and uncertainty has been largely overlooked in climate change adaptation planning efforts.DocumentAttribution of CO2 emissions from Brazilian deforestation to consumers between 1990 and 2010
IOPscience, 2013Efforts to reduce deforestation to mitigate climate change and to conserve biodiversity are taking place on a global scale. While many studies have estimated the emissions occurring from deforestation, few have quantified the domestic and international drivers sustaining deforestation rates.DocumentThe second-image reversed and climate policy: how international influences helped changing Brazil’s positions on climate change
2013International climate policy is increasingly characterised by the growing involvement of developing countries. In addition to a stronger willingness to participate in global mitigation efforts, there are many examples of domestic mitigation programmes. For example, in 2009 Brazil made a substantial voluntary commitment to reduce its emissions.DocumentAn integrated approach to improving adaptive capacity: the adapta sertão experience
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011This paper explains the Adapta Sertão programme and its success in identifying and overcoming key barriers to improving adaptive capacity through partnership building and diversified interventions to address the multiple needs of farmers in Brazil’s semi-arid region. It outlines the challenges, approaches, and key lessons learned.DocumentImproving small farmers' adaptive capacity in semi-arid regions
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013In Latin America, as in Africa and Asia, 15-25% of the population lives in semi-arid areas, mostly in small isolated rural communities that are often the most severely affected by climate change.DocumentWater and climate change: improving access and management in semi-arid Brazil
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Water security is becoming increasingly problematic in semi-arid regions as a result of climate change. In response, Brazil’s federal government implemented two large programmes to build water infrastructure and facilitate access. However, the initiatives had a limited focus on water management, a gap that was filled by civil society to help put water to its most productive use.DocumentReducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.DocumentSafeguarding forests and people: a framework for designing a national system to implement REDD+ safeguards
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012This report provides a framework for the national implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) safeguards. These safeguards are needed to ensure effective implementation of REDD+ so that it does not inadvertently harm communities and ecosystems.OrganisationAmazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) is a non-profit, independent research, policy and outreach organisation working towards achieving sustainable development in the Amazon region in a way tDocumentTax treatment of carbon credit operations in Brazilian companies with CDM projects
Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade, 2012This study examines 'what taxation form is applied to carbon credit operations in Brazil in companies that are developing projects in the context of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)'. The exploratory research applies a qualitative approach to answer this question.Pages