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Author Eduardo, Viola

Title Brazil and Climate Change
Published New York, NY : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Climate change and international relations: An empirical and theoretical assessment -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The aggravation of the climate crisis: Temperature rise, extreme weather events, the renewables revolution, and theemergence of the geoengineering option -- 1.2.1 Is dangerous climate change unavoidable? Temperature rise andextreme weather events (2015â#x80;#x93;2017)
1.2.2 Mitigation path: The renewables revolution1.2.3 Geoengineering: An emerging option in the scientific community -- 1.3 The Paris Agreement and the rise of climate powers -- 1.3.1 Understanding global climate governance: Climate powers andclimate commitment -- 1.3.2 The rise of populist neo-nationalism and the climate crisis -- 1.4 The climate commitment approach (CCA) -- 1.4.1 The GHG emissions profile -- 1.4.2 The policy profile -- 1.4.2a The domestic policy profile -- 1.4.2b The foreign policy profile -- 1.5 The drivers of climate commitment
1.5.1 Drivers in the literature1.5.2 The Brazilian case -- 1.6 Final considerations -- 2. Brazil in the international system: Underachieving (environmental) power and the leadership myth -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Brazil in the global carbon cycle and the planetary boundaries -- 2.2.1 Brazilâ#x80;#x99;s emissions profile -- 2.3 Brazil in the international system: Economy, democracy, andforeign policy -- 2.3.1 The economy of a big emerging, low-growth, andlow-competitiveness player
2.3.2 Democracy and political regime: Fragmentation, public distrust, corruption, and social unrest2.3.3 International insertion: Between the Western democracies andthe BRICS -- 2.4 Final considerations -- 3. The beginning: Brazil, the climate villain -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Emissions profile 1: Giant irrational deforestation -- 3.2.1 Deforestation in the Brazilian mindset and in Brazilian history:The temperate Araucaria forest, the tropical Atlantic forest, and the Cerrado savanna -- 3.2.2 Deforestation in the Amazon: Economic and political drivers
3.2.3 The rise of agriculture3.2.4 Energy trends: The decline of renewables -- 3.3 Domestic climate policy profile 1: The lack of action -- 3.4 Foreign climate policy profile 1: A world divided by income:The Brazilian contribution to the UNFCCC (1992â#x80;#x93;2004) -- 3.4.1 The origins of the Brazilian position on climate change and Rio 92 -- 3.4.2 The Kyoto Protocol -- 3.5 Final considerations: Low climate commitment, Amazondisorders, and strong conservative forces -- 4. The rising: Brazil, the developing climate leader? -- 4.1 Introduction
Subject Climatic changes -- Brazil
Climatic changes -- International cooperation
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Rain forest ecology -- Amazon River Region
Climatic changes
Climatic changes -- International cooperation
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Rain forest ecology
Amazon River Region
Brazil
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1351589717
9781351589710