Footprints – Identifying Mammals
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What is the carbon market? How does it work?
This mechanism encourages sustainable development and reduction of emissions by giving industrialized countries flexibility to meet their reduction targets.
Footprints – Identifying Mammals
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Recovering degraded areas
Several models were developed to restore degraded areas, including driving natural regeneration, planting seeds and planting of seedlings.
Family farming
In Brazil, 4,367,902 family establishments, or 84.4% of all rural establishments, occupy 24.3% of the total area of rural establishments, or 80.25 million hectares, distributed in grasslands (45%), forests (28%) and crops (22%).
GCF – Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
The GCF is a subnational task force established by a memorandum of understanding signed in 2008 that provides the basis for cooperation on several issues related to climate policy, financing, technology exchange and research.