Brazil

Region: Brazil

Brazil:

Projects
12
Resources
7
Stories
18
Resource
4th August 2016
POLICY BRIEF: Amazonia security agenda This policy brief assesses the Amazonia security agenda and policy coherence in Brazil, Colombia and Peru using a water-energy-food nexus approach.
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24th June 2016
GUIDE: The politics of climate change at the city level - Insights from a comparative study of Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Mexico City This Guide summarises the findings of a CDKN-supported research project by the Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN, Environment and Natural Resources Foundation), Argentina, into the politics of climate-related decision-making in three Latin American mega-cities: Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Mexico City.
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11th April 2016
Transparency in agricultural supply chains – Key to protecting Amazon’s resources The production of agricultural commodities such as soy, beef and palm oil threatens the Amazon region’s natural resources. If companies, civil society organisations and governments band together to publish full and transparent information on agricultural supply chains, it could be an important step toward protecting the Amazon’s resources.
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Carbon and water footprints in the cities of Guayaquil, Fortaleza and Santa Cruz de la Sierra

CDKN supported the implementation of the 'Footprint of Cities' project, through measuring carbon and water footprints as indicators for urban management.

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Project: Amazonia Security Agenda - Phase II

This project brought a water-energy-food (WEF) ‘nexus approach’ to analyse trade-offs across sectors and scales of governance; working closely with the national governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.

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18th November 2015
Direct access to international climate finance - a view from Latin America and the Caribbean Mathieu Lacoste of CDKN provides an overview of the status of climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. He explores how countries of the region are creating the conditions to enjoy direct access to climate finance in the future.
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30th July 2014
Policy Brief : Climate change adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in the Brazilian Sertão This paper, Climate change adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in the Brazilian Sertão, examines the drivers of climate vulnerability of the Bacia do Jacuípe in relation to the rest of Bahía.
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30th July 2014
Policy Brief : An integrated approach to family farmer adaptation in Brazil’s semi-arid region This policy brief, An integrated approach to family farmer adaptation in Brazil’s semi-arid region: the case of Adapta Sertão, look at how, through Adapta Sertão, small farmers in one of Brazil’s semi-arid regions were helped to increase their yields, find markets to sell their crops and access micro-credit to buy productive technology – making them more resilient in the face of a fast-changing climate.
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Project : Strengthening climate change policies in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Sao Paulo

This project aims to generate policy analysis and inputs to strengthen the climate change agenda and policies in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Mexico City and to contribute to the emerging process of cooperation on sustainability issues between these three main cities of Latin America.

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30th November 2012
Planning for climate compatible development What do Kenya, Pakistan and Peru have in common? At first glance, the countries appear very different - but at a learning event convened by CDKN at UNFCCC CoP18 in Doha, it was revealed that they share remarkably similar goals and challenges around integrating climate change and development.
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2nd November 2012
Renewable Energy - Made in Brazil The wind energy sector was incentivized through a feed-in-tariff, in 2005, which was changed into an auction program in 2009. The main change here was that the feed-in-tariff guaranteed a fixed price, which power producers receive for twenty years in the future...
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25th September 2012
Recognising the human element in extreme climate events Steven Price reports from the IPCC SREX meeting in Brazil on why we need to change our mindset about how best to manage “natural” disasters