Arbeitspapier

Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

The starting point for this study was the consideration of future climate change scenarios and their uncertainties. The paper presents the global projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and compares them with regional scenarios (downscaling) developed by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais-INPE), with a focus on two main IPCC scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) and two main global models (MIROC and Hadley Centre) for the periods 2011-2040 and 2041-2070. It aims to identify the main trends in terms of changes in temperature and precipitation for the North and Northeast regions of Brazil (more specifically, in the Amazon, semi-arid and cerrado biomes). [...]

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 141

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
climate change
impacts
family farming
North
Northeast
Brazil

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Machado Filho, Haroldo
Moraes, Cássia
Bennati, Paula
de Aragão Rodrigues, Renato
Guilles, Marcela
Rocha, Pedro
Lima, Amanda
Vasconcelos, Isadora
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
(where)
Brasilia
(when)
2016

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Machado Filho, Haroldo
  • Moraes, Cássia
  • Bennati, Paula
  • de Aragão Rodrigues, Renato
  • Guilles, Marcela
  • Rocha, Pedro
  • Lima, Amanda
  • Vasconcelos, Isadora
  • International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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