Brazil Policy Center
The Brazil Policy Center combines rigorous economic, institutional, and legal analysis to identify areas for improving public policies and provides concrete recommendations on how to reconcile economic development with environmental conservation. CPI works closely with government agencies and civil society to chart paths for improvement. CPI’s Brazil Policy Center focuses on strategic areas, including Climate Law and Governance, Conservation, Energy, Financial Instruments, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Agriculture, and is based at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). CPI’s Brazil office is led by Juliano J. Assunção, professor in the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio.
Featured work
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Landscape of Climate Finance for Land Use in Brazil
CPI/PUC-Rio conducted an unprecedented tracking exercise to quantify the climate-aligned financial flows directed to land use in Brazil.
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Carbon and the Fate of the Amazon
The carbon market is an efficient strategy in combating the climate crisis in Brazil, with global impacts to change the vocation of the forest, avoiding the tipping point.
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The Amazon Domino Effect: How Deforestation Can Trigger Widespread Degradation
Researchers from CPI/PUC-Rio present unprecedented results on the impacts of deforestation in different regions of the forest. They identify that, on average, for every 100 trees deforested, 22 additional trees die in regions distant from the deforestation due to lack of water.
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Latest work
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Governance of Forest Concessions in the Amazon: Opportunities for Improvement Based on Evidence in Pará
Analysis of the evolution of forest concessions in the Amazon allows for the recommendation of new governance structure for concessions in the Amazon region.
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Innovative Mechanisms for Forest Compensation in Brazilian MATOPIBA
The new CPI/PUC-Rio publication analyzes the main modalities of forest compensation in Brazilian MATOPIBA, identifying state and federal policies.
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Family Farming in Brazil: Inequalities in Credit Access
Researchers from the CPI/PUC-Rio reveal that the access to credit for family farmers in Brazil is both limited and unequal.
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Brazilian Environmental Policies and the New European Union Regulation for Deforestation-Free Products: Opportunities and Challenges
Researchers from CPI/PUC-Rio analyzed how brazilian environmental policies dialogue with the European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation.
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Video: Landscape of Climate Finance for Land Use in Brazil
Watch the video to learn about the climate finance flows for land use in Brazil.
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Combatting Deforestation Portfolio
Discover the publications in CPI/PUC-Rio combatting deforestation portfolio.
Data Visualization
Landscape of Climate Finance for Land Use in Brazil - Interactive Sankey
CPI/PUC-Rio conducted an unprecedented tracking exercise to quantify the climate-aligned financial flows directed to land use in Brazil.
