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This briefing by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) and Agroicone presents proposals to integrate sustainability and climate resilience into Brazil's 2023/24 Agricultural Plan (Plano Safra). The document outlines three primary sets of recommendations: aligning rural credit rules with sustainability goals, improving agricultural risk management through insurance subsidies, and prioritizing the allocation of Constitutional Financing Funds (FCFs) for small producers and low-carbon practices.

This technical note by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) and Agroicone presents proposals to integrate sustainability into Brazil's Plano Safra 2023/24. The document advocates for aligning rural credit and insurance with climate goals, specifically by increasing funding for low-carbon agriculture programs, improving risk management through climate zoning, and redirecting constitutional funds toward small-scale producers and sustainable practices.

This technical note by Climate Policy Initiative/Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (CPI/PUC-Rio) argues for clearer definitions and more transparent methodologies in delimiting the 'area of influence' for land transportation infrastructure projects in Brazil. The authors contend that current practices often confuse the conceptual definition of the area of influence with the parameters used for its physical delimitation, leading to inconsistent assessments of socio-economic and environmental impacts.

This technical note describes the Aqueduct 3.0 water risk framework, which aggregates 13 indicators—covering quantity, quality, and reputational risks—into a composite overall water risk score to help decision-makers identify high-risk regions or assets.

This technical note by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the NAPC/PUC-Rio argues that estimates of land 'amnesty' granted by the new Brazilian Forest Code (Law No. 12,651/2012) may be lower than previously reported by Imaflora, as some rules were already present in the previous legislation.

This technical note describes the data sources and calculation methods for the Land Emissions and Removals Navigator (LEARN) tool, a free web-based resource designed to help U.S. communities analyze the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of forests and trees at a local scale.

This technical note by the World Resources Institute analyzes public climate finance contributions from developed countries between 2013 and 2018 to assess progress toward the $100 billion annual goal established in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord.

This technical note describes the development of the China-specific baseline water stress indicator (BWS-China) by the World Resources Institute (WRI). BWS-China integrates prefecture-level water withdrawal data for over 300 cities into the Aqueduct global baseline water stress indicator to provide more granular and geographically specific results than aggregated country-level statistics.

This technical note describes a fully open-source modeling framework developed by the World Resources Institute's Cool Cities Lab to assess hyperlocal heat exposure in cities at a 1-meter resolution using the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI).