Brazil

Goal

We support efforts to mitigate climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and by capturing and storing carbon in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, while promoting biodiversity conservation, the sustainable use of natural resources, and equity and rights for indigenous peoples and traditional communities.

Brazil Initiative

The Alliance focuses our efforts in Brazil on supporting inclusive growth, land rights, good governance, and legality in support of efforts to achieve the Brazilian government’s climate and land use commitments, including low-emissions agriculture and an end to illegal deforestation. Download the Brazil Initiative Summary:

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Why Brazil?

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest as well as the world’s largest river basin, supplying 20% of the planet’s surface freshwater. The region houses a wealth of biodiversity and is home to thousands of indigenous and traditional peoples. Globally, the Amazon is critically important to the Earth’s climate—both for the role it plays in removing carbon from the atmosphere, and in regulating rainfall patterns.

Until recently, Brazil made significant progress in reducing forest loss while increasing production of agricultural commodities. But deforestation is once again on the rise in the Amazon. Brazil’s agricultural frontier is advancing fastest in the Cerrado where, between 2008 and 2012, the rate of conversion was more than double that of the Amazon.

Despite the threats, the opportunities for climate change mitigation and social and economic progress by protecting and restoring Brazil’s natural areas are very real.

Policy & Governance Reforms

Promoting land rights and community forest management experiences from Mexico and Central America to inform policies, programs, and practitioners around the world to more effectively pursue climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and secure community forest rights and livelihoods.

Where we Focus

Clear Land Ownership
Preventing Additional Deforestation
Public Support

Community Land Rights & Management

Encouraging increased formal recognition of indigenous and traditional community lands and resource rights, and sustainably operating community management systems in the Amazon and Cerrado.

Where we Focus

Supportive Land Policies & Community Mapping
Protection of Environmental & Human Rights Defenders
Increased Investments in Community Land Rights and Management

Conflict- & Deforestation-Free Beef & Soy

Ensuring beef and soy in the Amazon and Cerrado are legally sourced and verified as deforestation- and conflict-free.

Where we Focus

Verifiable Corporate Commitments
Increased Resources

Addressing Impacts of Infrastructure

Avoiding negative environmental and social impacts, decreasing the risk of corruption, and guaranteeing indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights in policies, investments, and infrastructure and extractives projects.

Where we Focus

Avoiding Negative Social & Environmental Impact
Investment in Local, Sustainable Development
Participation & Advocacy

Grants

The Alliance partner foundations work closely together to identify funding opportunities that create impact. Explore our Grants Database to learn more about what we support. The Climate and Land Use Alliance does not accept unsolicited grant proposals.

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Where We Focus

The Alliance focuses its grantmaking in key geographic regions that are home to globally important tropical forests with significant potential for mitigating climate change.

Where We Focus

Goal

Brazil Initiative

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Why Brazil?

Strategic Priorities

Policy & Governance Reforms

Where we Focus

Community Land Rights & Management

Where we Focus

Conflict- & Deforestation-Free Beef & Soy

Where we Focus

Addressing Impacts of Infrastructure

Where we Focus

Grants

Where We Focus

Global

Indonesia

Mexico & Central America