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That was founded by former Soviet Union President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building upon the work started by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1] Green Cross Brazil is an independent non-profit and non-governmental environmental organisation working to address the inter-connected global ...
Paulo Afonso Hydroelectric Powerplant in Bahia. As of 2018, renewable energy accounted for 79% of the domestically produced electricity used in Brazil. [1] [2] [3]Brazil relies on hydroelectricity for 65% of its electricity, [1] [2] and the Brazilian government plans to expand the share of wind energy (currently 11%), solar energy (currently 2.5%) and biomass [1] [2] as alternatives.
Support for a green recovery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has come from multiple political parties, governments, activists, and academia across the globe. [8] [9] Following similar measures in response to the GFC, [10] a key goal of the packages is to ensure that actions to combat recession also combat climate change.
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Portuguese: Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima, abbreviated MMA) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The ministry emerged from the Special Secretariat for the Environment within the now-extinct Ministry of the Interior from 1974 to 1985.
The Just Transition Mechanism is a policy framework developed by the European Union (EU) as part of the European Green Deal investment plan to ensure a just transition into a low-carbon economy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Climate finance is "finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases and aims at reducing vulnerability of, and maintaining and increasing the resilience of, human and ecological systems to negative climate change impacts", as defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Standing Committee on Finance.
Portal Domínio Público (lit. ' Public Domain Portal ') is a digital library launched by the government of Brazil in November 2004. [1] It was founded as part of the Secretariat for Distance Education (Secretaria de Educação à Distância) of the Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação) with the goal of preserving and sharing cultural artworks that are in the public domain.