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Climate Governance for Rondonia project concludes with a significant socio-environmental legacy

In November, the project ‘Unlocking and leveraging low-emission development’, which established climate governance for the state of Rondônia, concluded with the achievement of many the expected results. BVRio acted as the implementing partner of the Environmental Development Secretariat in designing and executing the instruments and participation mechanisms outlined in State Law 4437.  Throughout the project, […]

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How the private sector can support the Amazon alliance to end deforestation

This week the Leaders of State of the eight countries that share the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) signed the Belém Declaration, a historic statement in order to face the challenge of protecting the integrality of the Amazon region, fighting poverty and inequalities, “with the purpose of gathering efforts to promote sustainable development that is harmonious, […]

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State Forum on Climate Change moves forward low carbon development in Rondonia

This month, the state Government of Rondônia, one of the most deforested places in the Amazon, reached a significant milestone in its agenda to combat deforestation and tackle climate change. Chaired by BVRio’s Beto Mesquita, the milestone decisions were reached at the state’s Forum, the primary vehicle for climate governance for State Policy on Climate […]

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VCM’s requirement for regulatory surplus hinders climate action

Pedro Moura Costa[1], February 2023 1.Introduction: the urgent need to promote NBS in the Amazon There is an urgent need to promote conservation and restoration at scale. It is estimated that the sequestration and conservation of carbon stocks in vegetation can lead to 16 Gt CO2 annual benefits worldwide[2]. The importance of vegetation and nature-based […]

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Connecting community forest management with markets that value sustainability

Project dates: 2017 – 31/12/2020 Funders: Good Energies Foundation, Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Conservation International  Partners: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Brasil, Cooperativa Mista da Flona Tapajós (Coomflona), Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (Sebrae) Type of initiative: Advocacy The problem Members of the Mixed […]

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Renewed appointment for BVRio as executing partner for Climate Governance in Rondônia

Renewed appointment for BVRio as executing partner for Climate Governance in Rondônia

BVRio has again been designated as the executing partner for the local work of the Climate Governance for Rondônia project, formally appointed by the State Government of Rondônia in a letter sent to the executive secretariat of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF). After successfully concluding the first phase, carried out between 2018 and 2020, the second phase of the project is to develop public agendas and participatory instruments for state climate governance.

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