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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in Brazil

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  Scaling up climate-compatible infrastructure: Insights from national development banks in Brazil and South Africa

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2019

  National development banks (NDBs) and development finance institutions – domestically focused, publicly owned financial institutions with a specific development mandate – are poised to play a role in bridging the investment gap for climate-compatible infrastructure in developing countries.
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  Producing localized commodity frontiers at the end of cheap nature: an analysis of eco‐scalar carbon fixes and their consequences

  Wiley Online Library, 2018

  There is no single ‘great’ commodity frontier whose exploitation under current socio‐technical conditions could fuel capital accumulation at the global scale. According to Jason Moore, this represents the ‘end of Cheap Nature’ and signals a terminal crisis for capitalism as we know it.
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  Management regimes for REDD+: an analysis of the regime in the RDS Rio Negro REDD+ pilot

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  This report is an output of the project ‘Man and forests – an evaluation of management strategies for reduced deforestation (Mana_Forest)’, led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway, in partnership with Fundação Amazonas Sustentável, Brazil; Makerere University, Uganda; Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania; the University of Oslo, Norway and the Woods Hole Research
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  Amazonian farmers’ response to fire policies and climate change

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Despite a fall in deforestation, frequency and severity of fires in the Brazilian Amazon are rising, causing huge carbon emissions, biodiversity losses and local economic costs. The ignition sources are anthropogenic and mostly related to the accidental spread of agricultural fires.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. Empowerment of indigenous peoples and forest dependent local communities through support to civil society organisations

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017

  The Terms of References (ToR) of the present evaluation have the following objectives:
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  Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives - IOPscience

  IOPscience, 2017

  The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+.
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  Co-Operation or Co-Optation? NGOs’ Roles in Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017

  This paper investigates non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in policy processes related to Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) comparing four countries: Norway, Brazil, Indonesia, and Tanzania. Based on documents and interviews, NGO involvement is mapped using a conceptual framework to categorise and compare different roles and modes of engagement.
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  Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least 36%, partly by reducing emissions in the livestock sector through strategies such as intensification, pasture improvement, and rotational grazing.
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  How Brazil's sustainable cattle schemes could beef up to conserve forests and sustainable rural livelihoods

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Cattle ranching is the largest driver of Brazilian deforestation, a relevant emitter of greenhousegases, and an important source of local livelihoods. In response, many initiatives attempt to render Brazil’s beef production more environmentally and socially sustainable.
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  Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Sustainability, traceability, and branding for final consumers have been a component of market development of coffee for two decades in Brazil, but only just started in the beef sector. Sustainability initiatives for coffee have enjoyed high price premiums and support from cooperatives to make this possible. Efforts in the cattle and beef sector are more recent and still in a pilot phase.

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