Category: Brazil
Mudança do Clima no Brasil: aspectos econômicos, sociais e regulatórios
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Climate Change In Brazil: Economic, Social And Regulatory Aspects
The main objective of this book is to provide a publication on the Brazilian policies to combat climate change. It offers a comprehensive view of discussions on this topic in Brazil with analytical texts written by 38 Brazilian specialists, representing 18 Brazilian institutions, many of whom have participated in the CoP negotiations and who are members of the IPCC.It presents 19 chapters discussing national and international regulatory aspects through economic, institutional, sectoral and...
Biased media reports that present only part of the story cause damage to serious efforts in nature conservation and sustainable development in Brazil
Instead of helping to solve a problem that governments, scientists and environmentalists all over the world are trying to solve, the PBS-Frontline reports make an extremely negative contribution to this effort. These investigative reports fail to gather all the facts on purpose and lead viewers to a completely erroneous understanding in an anti ethical and unprofessional manner. The reports "The Money Tree" and "The Carbon Hunter", published respectively in October of 2009 and May of 2010,...
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forests and to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its formal announcement within UN climate treaty negotiations in 2008 of an Amazon deforestation reduction target, which prompted Norway to commit $1 billion if it sustains progress. The second is a widespread marketplace transition within the beef and soy industries, the main drivers of deforestation, to exclude Amazon deforesters from their...
