Created in 2000 through a partnership established between the Secretariat for Environmental Quality at Human Settlements (SQA) of the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) and COPPE/UFRJ, Climate Center has actively participated in the development of public policies and the strengthening of training for different national and international social agents regarding actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change, focusing on the development of municipal and state greenhouse gas inventories, the construction and analysis of mitigation scenarios, the development of innovative projects of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the adaptation of small rural producers to the increased droughts caused by climate change.

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