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Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015Climate 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.DocumentHealth care facility climate change resiliency workshop
Pan American Health Organization, 2015In 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.DocumentVulnerability indicators of adaptation to climate change and policy implications for investment projects
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2015Relevant and appropriate indicators for vulnerability at both the local levels are significant for effective adaptation to climate change.DocumentIntegrating mitigation and adaptation in climate and land use policies in Brazil: a policy document analysis
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, 2016Brazil 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.DocumentAdaptation to climate change in megacities of Latin America
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014There is broad consensus that global climate change is inevitable. Its effects are manifested, among others, in a rise in average annual temperatures, the impacts of which also affect Latin America. Since Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the world’s most urbanized regions, urban spaces provide an important research area.DocumentMapping tree plantations with multispectral imagery: preliminary results for seven tropical countries
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2016Tree plantations continue to expand worldwide to meet demand for timber, wood fiber, fruits, and vegetable oils such as palm oil. Many countries report national statistics on the area of land in plantations, but the extent and locations of these plantations are often not documented.DocumentModels for financing clean infrastructure in middle income countries
Climate Policy Initiative, 2015Many rich countries can rely upon sophisticated financial systems, established regulation and policy, a large pool of institutional investors and governments with relatively strong financial positions to help them meet the infrastructure investment needs of their relatively slow growing economies.DocumentImproving substantive and procedural protections for indigenous rights in REDD+ projects: possible lessons from Brazil
Afe Babalola University, 2015This 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.DocumentIntegrated national policy approaches to climate-smart agriculture: Insights from Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change report examining integrated national policies on climate-smart agricultural in Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand.DocumentState of the rainforest 2014
Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2014Destruction of the rainforest and other tropical forests continue on a dramatic scale in spite of unprecedented global attention to the issue of deforestation and the role of forests in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.Pages