RRI Work and Resources in Brazil

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Below you can find resources for Brazil listed by resource-type (i.e. News, Publications, Events).

Upcoming Events!

• Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders: Global Issues in Governance
  May 27, 2013 - Oaxaca, Mexico

Recent News

• New York Times: Fewer Rain Forests Mean Less Energy for Developing Nations, Study Finds May 14, 2013
• The Economist: The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte May 10, 2013
• Earth First! Newswire: 2012: A Deadly Year for Environmentalists March 12, 2013
• EurekAlert: Protected areas successfully prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest March 11, 2013
• Reuters Point Carbon: Land ownership disputes hamper Latin American carbon projects March 08, 2013
• Le Monde: Mobilisation pour l'Amazonie équatorienne, déchirée entre pétrole et biodiversité February 27, 2013
• INTERPOL Press Release: Latin American countries in first INTERPOL operation against illegal logging February 19, 2013
• Lembar Berita Elektronik FPP Februari 2013 (Bahasa Indonesia) February 18, 2013
• FPP E-Newsletter February 2013 February 18, 2013
• Veckans Affärer (in Swedish): Skogsjätten lever inte som de lär February 14, 2013

Publications relating to Brazil

• FPP E-Newsletter February 2013
• Attribution of CO2 emissions from Brazilian deforestation to consumers between 1990 and 2010
• Instituto Carbono Brasil: Nova ferramenta permite acompanhar investimentos em REDD
  
• Agenda Perliminar 14 Dialogo de RRI
  
• YubaNet: Portected Areas Successfully Prevent Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest
  
• Futurity: Strict ‘safe zones’ protect Brazilian rainforest
  
• Illegal-Logging.info: Protected Areas Successfully Prevent Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest
  
• Azo Clean Tech: Protected areas more effective at reducing deforestation than sustainable-use areas
  
• University of Michigan: Protected Areas Successfully Prevent Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest
• The Guardian: Green activists face grave threat as death toll doubles in a decade
• Bulletin d'information FPP Février 2013
• E-Boletín FPP Febrero 2013
• Lembar Berita Elektronik FPP Februari 2013 (Bahasa Indonesia)
• YubaNet: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses
• Traditional populations and forests: An overview of Brazilian policies
• Traditional populations and forests: An overview of Brazilian policies
• Lay of the land
• Rights-based rainforest protection
• 2012 Lao workshop - Brazil's land and forest tenure: challenges and perspectives (Lao)
• 2012 Lao workshop - Brazil's land and forest tenure: challenges and perspectives
• Forest Tenure Reform in Brazil
• Forest Land Reform in Brazil
• Respetando Los Derechos, Proporcionando Desarrollo
• Re-Framing REDD+
• Rio+20 International Conference of Indigenous Peoples on Self-Determination and Sustainable Development Final Political Declaration
• Rio+20 Outcome of the Conference: The Future We Want
• Inter Press Service: Economia verde - proteção das florestas por comunidades tradicionais
  
• India Blooms: The Green Brigade
• Rio+20 Evento Paralelo Pueblos indígenas y comunidades campesinas forestales de Mesoamérica aportan a la reflexión de Rio+20.
• Analysing REDD+
• Forest Tenure Reform- New Resource Rights for Forest based Communities
• Leadership
• Indigenous Peoples’ International Conference on Sustainable Development and Self-Determination
• AllAfrica: Six Ways to Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Development
• TerraNullius: What Rights? Comparing developing countries’ national legislation on community forest tenure rights
• Alert Net Reuters: Climate Conversations - 6 ways to secure land rights for sustainable development
  
• AFP: Expectations for the Rio Summit, in quotes
• Brochure for RRI UN Side Event: Community Forestry Management to Assure Sustainable Development AMPB (ESP)
  
• Natural Justice: New RRI Report on Forest Tenure Rights
• Brochure for RRI UN Side Event: Community Forest Management to Assure Sustainable Development
  
• Radio France International: Ilha no norte do Brasil é exemplo de exploração sustentável, diz Le Monde (in French)
• Treehugger: How Land Rights are Turning the World's Rural Poor Into Unexpected Conservationists
• Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Blog: Rights and Resources for Rio
• IISD Reporting Services: RRI Reviews Forest Tenure Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• International Herald Tribune: This Forest is Our Forest
• REDD-Monitor: Forest tenure rights and REDD
• O Estado De S. Paolo (Portuguese): Direito à terra foi vitória da Rio-92
• Ciencia Hoje (Portuguese): Direitos garantidos?
• Le Monde (French): L’île d’ Amazonie où l’homme s’ accorde avec la nature
• Washington Post: Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change

Past

• Community Forest Management to Assure Sustainable Development
  June 18, 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Complex Institutional Frameworks for Sustainability: Resolving Conflicts & Promoting Coherence in Forest Governance
  June 18, 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil