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27.06.24
Rural Environmental Registry Task Forces Promote Environmental Compliance in Magé and Guapimirim
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25.06.24
Debates are advancing towards the construction of a public policy that recognises the results of biodiversity conservation efforts in Brazil
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20.12.23
COP 28 Climate Summit: Acknowledging Progress, Facing Challenges, and Brazil’s Role for a Sustainable Future
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20.12.23
What are NbS and what are their contributions to mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change?
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16.10.23
The carbon market: an opportunity to control deforestation caused by agricultural expansion in Brazil
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20.09.23
Bernardo Strassburg, president of IIS, has been elected as the “Sustainability Leader of the Year for 2023”
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15.09.23
IIS is one of the winners of the “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Scenario Modelling Challenge”
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13.03.23
IIS launches online platform with priority areas for ecosystems conservation and restoration around the world
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17.01.23
Video: discussion panel “Ambitious and synergistic goals for COPs decisions on Climate (COP27) and Biodiversity (COP15)”
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06.01.23
IIS contributes to different targets of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Post-2020 GBF)
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16.11.22
IIS president Bernardo Strassburg is one of the 20 Brazilian highly cited scientists in the world
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11.05.22
IIS´s project is selected in the second call for funding from the Land Innovation Fund for South America
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04.02.22
Bernardo Strassburg, Executive Director of IIS, listed as one of the best scientists in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier
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05.03.21
Workshop on agricultural commodities production and trade scenarios outcomes on land use change and biodiversity in Brazil
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28.01.21
Consultative workshops to identify priority areas for the recovery of native vegetation in the Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal
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21.10.20
CSRio Seminar: Are new frameworks needed? Discussion in the scope of environmental projects
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15.10.20
Rewilding 30 per cent of world’s land would halt extinctions and ‘absorb half of CO2 emissions’, major study finds
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14.10.20
Bernardo Strassburg interview about the study “Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration”
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14.10.20
Restoring 30% of the world’s ecosystems in priority areas could stave off more than 70% of projected extinctions and absorb nearly half of the carbon built up in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution
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07.10.20
Political overview of Ecosystem Services in Brazil: an Payment for Environmental Services approach
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04.09.20
CSRio Seminar – Biodiversity management and ecosystem services in rural landscapes: a socioecological approach
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20.07.20
CSRio Seminar: “Caminho da Mata Atlântica: a trail reconnecting people, forests and protected areas”
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09.07.20
Economic Benefits of Protecting 30% of Planet’s Land and Ocean Outweigh the Costs at Least 5-to-1
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05.05.20
CSRio Seminar “Sustainability Indicators: Use of Evaluation in Social and Environmental Projects by Executing and Financing Institutions
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09.04.20
CSRio Seminar: “Beyond Protected Areas: the role of other areas for the conservation of biodiversity”
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06.04.20
IIS hires professional to develop economic incentive mechanisms and strategies for biodiversity conservation for GEF Private Areas project
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27.02.20
“From disaster risk reduction to ecosystem-based adaptation in favelas” – CSRio seminar welcomes Ebba Brink
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02.12.19
Forest Management and Decision-making Under Rapid Global Change – CSRio seminar welcomes Jacob Bukoski
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15.11.19
CSRio Seminar: “Reporting and Verification – MRV of Brazil’s Commitments to the Paris Agreement”.
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07.11.19
“Living in harmony with Nature” – second day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration discusses how to achieve the 2050 Vision
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07.11.19
The first day of the Thematic Consultation on Ecosystem Restoration of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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01.10.19
IIS hires professional to support technical dissemination of editions learned for GEF Private Areas project
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30.08.19
CSRio Seminar welcomes Cecília Herzog on the talk “Nature-Based Solutions for Contemporary City Challenges”
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28.08.19
First Landowners Meeting of the São João River Basin Protected Area – GEF Private Areas Project
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26.08.19
It is possible to recover millions of hectares of vegetation until 2030, according to study
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23.08.19
IIS and BPBES launch Summary for decision-makers of the thematic report “Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration”
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19.08.19
Unprecedent study in Brazil reveals how biochar recovers degraded pasturelands, increases agricultural productivity and helps preserve the environment
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01.08.19
Job opportunities: professional for technical support to field activities on APA Pouso Alto pilot
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04.07.19
New study reveals that the Atlantic Forest demonstrates the best opportunities for the restoration of tropical forests around the world
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25.06.19
Conservation and restoration of nature: challenges and solutions for the future of the planet
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04.06.19
Pact for the Atlantic Forest Restoration: New study shows that large-scale restoration is already happening in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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06.05.19
Bernardo Strassburg is interviewed by “Jornal Nacional” on the report of the Intergovernmental Platform for Scientific Policies on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
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06.05.19
Bernardo Strassburg is one of the leader authors of the new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
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01.05.19
What is the value of the economic damage caused by climate change in Brazilian critical infrastructures?
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17.12.18
Study shows that restoring nature with spatial intelligence can triple its benefits while halving costs
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12.12.18
IIS and Ministry of the Environment launch project for biodiversity conservation and rural landscapes in private areas
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12.12.18
“Secretaria of State for the Environment and INEA present report of the “”Climate Adaptation Plan of the State of Rio de Janeiro”””
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04.08.18
Restoring Connections and Landscapes – Symposium of Ecological Restoration brings together specialists in Rio de Janeiro
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04.07.18
I Symposium of Ecological Restoration of the State of Rio de Janeiro is a little less than one month way!
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22.05.18
IIS brings together national and international experts in International Workshop on Restoration and Water
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25.01.18
Fernanda Tubenchlak, from IIS, talks about restoration in Rio de Janeiro state during the II Meeting of the Fluminense forestry observatory
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04.12.17
One more published article from the IIS team and partners: Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
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09.11.17
Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests
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27.10.17
” On October 20-23, the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) participated in the “”City and Civil Society Organizations Summit – 2017″” event in Istanbul / Turkey.”
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06.09.17
The International Institute for Sustainability team was present at the VII World Conference on Restoration held in Foz do Iguaçu between August 27 and September 1, 2017
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15.08.17
Researcher at the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) received Luis F. Bacardi Award for Advances in Tropical Conservation of 2017
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10.08.17
IIS and partners publish correspondence “Hard times for the Brazilian environment” in Nature Ecology & Evolution
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24.04.17
IIS publishes article “Willingness to Adopt Biochar in Agriculture: The Producer’s Perspective” in Sustainability journal (volume 9)
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29.03.17
Specialist in industrial scale clean energy production in Poland came to Rio de Janeiro to talk about his experience
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24.03.17
Policies mix can avoid extinctions of historic proportions projected for the Cerrado, shows a study coordinated by Brazilians, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
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07.03.17
Lack of labour is pointed as the main barrier for the adoption of good agricultural practices in Brazil – A study with 250 producers from Mato Grosso was conducted by the IIS
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22.02.17
The Pact for the Atlantic Forest Restoration (Pacto in portuguese) reorganizes itself to overcome difficulties and achieve the restoration goals launched in 2009
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14.02.17
The National Plan for Native Vegetation Recovery (PLANAVEG), of which IIS was one of the idealizers, became the federal decree “National Policy for Native Vegetation Recovery (PROVEG)”
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22.11.16
IIS publishes two articles in the special volume on natural regeneration of Biotropica journal (volume 48, issue 6)
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09.03.16
Brazilian and foreigner scientists launches a book debating sustainability indicators efficiency on March the 10th in Rio de Janeiro
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12.11.15
Australian specialists discuss spatial priorization for Brazilian Atlantic Forest restoration at IIS
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20.08.15
For the strengthening of natural regeneration in forest restoration and landscapes policies
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04.05.15
New study shows that forest restoration cana chieve large scale without competing with agriculture
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23.07.14
Study shows that Brazil can have the greatest agricultural expansion in the world with zero deforestation
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26.06.14
Study about carbon emissions by selective deforestation in Amazonia has the participation of IIS researcher
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21.05.14
IIS article analyzes the impacts of projects with sustainability indicators in developing countries
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21.05.14
“IIS article about land-use management in Suriname is published in “”Land Use Policy”” magazine, from Elsevier”
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17.04.14
Study proves the possibility of implementing native forests for economic purposes in the state of São Paulo
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03.12.13