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Home » Land Use and Food Systems
  • Water, energy and internet for excluded Amazonians

    Organizations from Brazilian civil society, led by iCS grantees, participate in a meeting with the BNDES to guarantee public policy for forest peoples in remote [...]

    Low Carbon Economy, Land Use and Food Systems

  • Sociobiodiversity Week

    Extractivists and guests spent a week in Brasília aiming to protect the environment and the social and economic inclusion of traditional communities in the country [...]

    Land Use and Food Systems

  • Abaré hospital boat receives a visit from President Lula

    This was the first model of basic riverside healthcare set up by the Health and Happiness Project, which later became an inspiration for the creation [...]

    Land Use and Food Systems

  • Margaridas in Brasilia

    The largest mobilization of women in Latin America took place on the streets of the federal capital with demands for equality and justice for rural, [...]

    Land Use and Food Systems

  • Forest devastation has increased in the last 10 years

    Information was shared in Collection 8 of the annual maps of land cover and land use in Brazil by MapBiomas, which also confirms two new [...]

    Land Use and Food Systems

  • Clean water and solar energy for villages on the Jordão and Alto Tarauacá rivers

    APOTI completed the last installation of a drinking water system in a village from the region, in a project supported by iCS in 20 communities. [...]

    Land Use and Food Systems

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Area 4 – Climate policy and institutional framework

Create and strengthen the institutional conditions that are favorable to transition, such as laws, policies, organizations and instruments.

  • Watchdog

  • Foreign policy

  • Climate Policy

  • Subnational policy

  • Just Financial Transition

  • Redirection of investments

  • Watchdog

Strengthen the watchdog capacity of civil society in relation to the commitments made at the national and subnational level and by the private sector that contribute to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.
  • Foreign policy

Strengthen an ecosystem that links climate change with the agendas of foreign trade and international cooperation.
  • Climate Policy

Strengthen the climate policy of Brazil, especially by updating and strengthening the PNMC and revisiting its governance in the light of the Paris Agreement, ensuring the participation of the different actors and that the concepts of social justice, equity and climate racism are taken into consideration.
  • Subnational policy

Strengthen the subnational climate governance, the improvement of regulations and commitments with a view to the implementation of the climate policies linked to decarbonization and adaptation.
  • Just Financial Transition

Ensure the incorporation of the full extent of the climate risks and impacts in the credit pricing, investment decisions and insurance coverage, through the use of regulatory and financial instruments and the incorporation of the climate agenda in the concept of fiduciary duty of the economic agents.
  • Redirection of investments

Stimulate the direction of public and private investments towards an infrastructure that is aligned with the transition to a low carbon economy through the advance of regulations and the promotion of access to “green” lines of credit.

Area 3 – Agents of change for climate action

Agents of change who must play a leading role in the just transition to a low carbon economy.

  • Voters

  • Indigenous peoples and traditional communities

  • Population of the urban Amazon

  • Black population

  • Entrepreneurs and business owners

  • Voters

Strengthen the mobilization and the civic engagement in relation to climate change in the electoral processes, by raising the awareness of the electorate and the promotion of the communication capacity of the Amazonian organizations.
  • Indigenous peoples and traditional communities

Strengthen the role of the indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the climate agenda, ensuring their rights, way of life, and their autonomy in the management and protection of territories.
  • Population of the urban Amazon

Engage the urban population of the Amazon in the defense of the social and environmental integrity in the cities of the Amazon and contribute to the advancement of the climate agenda, with the strengthened local civil society to play a leading role in the changes.
  • Black population

Promote the leadership of the Afro-descendant population in the climate debate and their fair participation in the decision-making processes, allowing them to promote solutions that are compatible with their security and rights and appropriate intersectoral climate actions and policies.
  • Entrepreneurs and business owners

Inform and engage entrepreneurs and business owners to lead the transition to a low carbon economy.

Area 2 – Energy, industrial and transport transition

Just energy transition, with the electrification of public transport and decarbonization of the electricity sector and industry for a low carbon economy.

  • Renewables

  • Electromobility

  • Industry

  • Fossil fuel in electric generation

  • Fuel for transport

  • Renewables

Strengthen the competitiveness of the renewable sources through the reform of the electric sector and promote the preparation of the regional development plans in the Northeast, guaranteeing the universal access to safe and accessible energy to everybody.
  • Electromobility

Accelerate the adoption of electric powered buses and freight vehicles in urban areas, extending municipal electrification initiatives, improving air quality and encouraging financing mechanisms.
  • Industry

Promote the transition of the strategic industrial sectors to comply with a low carbon economic structure, considering the opportunities offered by energy efficiency, electrification, low carbon fuels such as biomethane and green hydrogen, as well as possible disruptive technologies.
  • Fossil fuel in electric generation

Eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the generation of electricity by 2035 through the programmed elimination of fossil liquefied gas (LNG), coal and diesel in the electricity generation.
  • Fuel for transport

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Area 1 – Transition in the land use and food systems

The transition in the land use and food systems involves the strengthening of actions to combat deforestation, the promotion of low carbon agriculture and the bioeconomy.

  • Forest Code

  • Traceability

  • Forest Carbon

  • Bioeconomy

  • Landholding Governance

  • Combating Deforestation

  • Just Transition of Agriculture

  • Forest Code

Strengthen the implementation of the Forest Code by the strengthening of the command and control mechanisms, the consolidation and improvement of regulations, the support/promotion of technical assistance and economic incentives.
  • Traceability

Ensure that large companies in Brazil implement traceability mechanisms, and that domestic consumers and market players use traceability information to make informed food choices.
  • Forest Carbon

Promote carbon pricing instruments that contribute to the financing of the forest restoration, guaranteeing integrity and socioenvironmental safeguards.
  • Bioeconomy

Strengthen the bioeconomy as a promoter of local and regional development, preserving the environmental integrity, increasing the leading role of the traditional populations and promoting their greater insertion in the national GDP and in our R&D&I policy.
  • Landholding Governance

Contribute to the legal allocation of unallocated public lands, ensuring socioenvironmental safeguards and protection of the biodiversity.
  • Combating Deforestation

Combating deforestation through intelligence, the reconstruction of the institutional and legal apparatus, and making public and private agents responsible for promoting it.
  • Just Transition of Agriculture

Promote a low carbon transition in Brazil, guaranteeing sustainable agricultural systems and their benefits for the Brazilian population.
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