Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...
COP24 Media Advisory Side Event: Brazil, a second Paris drop-off?
Specialists from academia and the third sector and the current Brazilian government will talk about Brazil’s key role in the global effort to mitigate carbon emissions and in brokering international climate talks. They will present the latest emissions and...
The Increase in Deforestation in the Amazon in 2013: a point off the curve or out of control?
With the objective of reflecting on the causes that led to this deforestation and stimulating a reaction by the Brazilian Public Sector, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM), the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA) and the Institute of People and...
Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation: What Contribution from Carbon Markets?
Article published in Carbon Markets, discussing different possibilities to link carbon markets to the fight against deforestation.
Brazil pledges to make big cut in Amazon deforestation
Article published by The Financial Times in February 2008.