OUR WORK IN 2019

2019 ANNUAL REPORT INDEX Mariana. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil.

3 LETTER OF PRESENTATION 7 OUR WORK IN 2019 30 BOARD AND LEADERSHIP 36 PARTNERS AND DONORS

5 ABOUT WRI BRASIL 8 FORESTS 31 TE AM 37 FINANCIAL

16 32 WORKING GROUPS 38 DIGITAL PRESENCE

25 CLIMATE Edition: Fernando Corrêa Fernanda Boscaini 28 COMMUNICATION Graphic design: Joana Oliveira Cover photo: Joana Oliveira/WRI Brasil English translation: Melissa Harkin & Todd Harkin (Harkin Translations) September 2020 LETTER OF PRESENTATION

As we finalize this report on our work we partnered with cities in initiatives in 2019, the world in 2020 is going ranging from urban afforestation through one of the most challenging and nature-based solutions to forest episodes in the past centuries. The restoration and water management. COVID-19 tragedy makes us grieve, but it does not shake our motivation Our Climate program, inspired by to continue working to overcome the the New Climate Economy (NCE) great challenges facing humanity— initiative, created the New Economy many of them aggravated by the for (NEB) project, seeking pandemic. to identify a new green growth path to stimulate the economy and This is especially true in cities. sustainable development, making Inequality in urban areas becomes businesses more efficient and even more striking, making it competitive, reducing impacts on LETTER OF increasingly urgent to confront it. the environment, and attracting In 2019, we continued working to more international investments make cities more resilient, adaptive, to Brazil. Throughout 2019, WRI PRESENTATION and inclusive, focusing on the Brasil combined research and transformations they needed to face engagement strategy to provide an today's critical challenges. Among accurate economic analysis and the achievements, we highlight encourage decision-makers and the expansion of electric bus fleets relevant partners in the country to and the quality of urban design get involved with the initiative. In and interventions that make the climate governance, we developed streets safer and more welcoming, an assessment tool for monitoring prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists. climate policy in Brazil. We also We also worked to protect women, validated the Greenhouse Gases supporting actions against sexual (GHG) Protocol for the silviculture harassment in public transportation. calculation tool to support Brazil's We continued to support cities with agriculture and forestry sectors in road safety through better road fulfilling their climate mitigation design. In the environmental field, commitments.

Fortaleza. Photo by Difusor Art Filmes/WRI Brasil.

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Specialists and institutions from the WRI Brasil's contribution to the air-quality field worked with us to offering of solutions to today's build a unified narrative, identifying greatest challenges has been the main gaps and opportunities in recognized for generating quality research and policy implementation, aiming to strengthen a field that information and engaging players, combines science and policy to confirming its relevance for adopting reduce GHG emissions and improve the best practices to propel Brazil the quality of life across Brazil. towards a competitive and sustainable economy. We thank our partners, Our Forests team worked on advisors, staff, and financiers for their accelerating nature-based solutions, support and trust. with a focus on restoring the landscape and forests to make degraded land productive again, Rachel Biderman generating employment and income Executive Director in rural areas. We generated information and created tools to Marcelo Furtado coordinate and engage the players Chairman of the Board so that the restoration is scaled up in the country. With the VERENA project (Economic Valuation of Reforestation with Native Species), we demonstrated the financial and technical feasibility of restoration and reforestation on a large-scale, helping the sectors and companies involved in restoration activities to contact institutional investors.

4 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR Juruti. Photo by Joana Oliveira/WRI Brasil. ABOUT WRI BRASIL

ABOUT WRI BRASIL

WRI Brasil is a research institute that turns great ideas into action to promote the protection of the environment, economic opportunities, and human well-being. We . Photo by Nereu Jr./WRI Brasil. develop studies and implement sustainable solutions for the climate, forests, and cities. We combine technical excellence with political coordination and work in URGENCY partnership with governments, companies, academia, and civil society. We believe that change in human behavior is urgently needed While faced with the challenging political, OUR VALUES to halt the accelerating rate of social, economic, and environmental environmental deterioration context that the world is going through, the organization has redoubled efforts to INDEPENDENCE promote a more inclusive and low-carbon INTEGRITY economy, intensify the transition to more Our effectiveness depends on work humane cities, and unlock the potential of Honesty, candor, and openness must that is uncompromised by partisan forest restoration in the country. guide our work to ensure credibility politics, institutional or personal and to build trust. allegiances, or sources of financial WRI Brasil is part of the World Resources support. We take pride in the Institute (WRI), a global research institution INNOVATION independence of our ideas and work. operating in more than 50 countries. WRI To lead change for a sustainable has more than 1000 experts and staff in our RESPECT offices in Brazil, China, the United States, world, we must be creative, forward- , Mexico, India, Indonesia, and Africa. thinking, entrepreneurial, and Our relationships are based on the adaptive. belief that all people deserve respect.

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OUR APPROACH COUNT IT

We start with data, creating user- friendly information systems, protocols, and standards. We conduct independent and impartial research to analyze relationships and develop solutions and communicate our findings in a captivating way.

CHANGE IT

We work with public managers, business leaders, and civil society to achieve change, testing our ideas in real and complex situations. We set goals and take responsibility for them.

SCALE IT

We identify and overcome barriers so that proven solutions multiply quickly and vastly. We work together with strategic partners that transform businesses, societies, and economies, nationally and internationally.

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OUR WORK IN 2019

WRI Brasil works to transform great ideas into concrete results, guaranteeing quality of life and a healthy environment for current and future generations. See how the Cities, Climate, and Forests programs worked in 2019.

Pintadas. Photo by Luiz Fernando Ricci/WRI Brasil.

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Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Brazilian territory, nowadays, has over 60 million hectares in a moderate or severe stage of degradation. Forest and landscape restoration can make these areas productive again, generating jobs and income in rural areas, stimulating low-carbon agriculture, and ensuring food security for local communities.

WRI Brasil's Forests Program generates information and builds tools to accelerate and scale up restoration in the country. The organization strives to encourage efficient land use and reconcile the conservation of ecosystem services with the development of a vibrant economy of sustainable forest products and sustainable agricultural products. FORESTS

Mata Atântica. Photo by Glauco Umbelino.

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Porto Seguro. Photo by Aurélio Padovezi/WRI Brasil.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THE VERENA PROJECT FINANCING TO ACCELERATE AND SCALE-UP FOREST AND One of the focuses of the Forests and having several partners join in experienced in carrying out projects LANDSCAPE RESTORATION Program is the VERENA Project Brazil. We help local businesses raise in the field, have less knowledge (Economic Valuation of Reforestation capital and increase their asset base. of preparing prospectuses and Within the scope of the VERENA with Native Species), which has We also work directly with investors investment plans. Through Project, the 20x20 Initiative, demonstrated the technical and to develop financially viable projects VERENA, WRI Brasil has helped and the Global Restoration economic viability of restoration, and identify projects that meet their sectors and companies involved in Initiative, we work continuously reforestation with native species, needs and can be scaled up. restoration to access institutional to incentivize governments, and large-scale agroforestry systems investors. financial institutions, investors, (AFSs). Restoration as an investment is and the private sector to support new. Banks and traditional investors and finance the restoration of We have made great strides in know little about this area, and degraded areas with native species disseminating the VERENA approach entrepreneurs and consultants, and forest systems.

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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) FOR FORESTRY WITH BRAZILIAN NATIVE SPECIES

Brazil should invest in R&D for We supported the publication of native species of trees in order to the book "Silviculture and Wood scale up restoration in the country, Properties of Native Species of following the same successful path of the of Brazil" with some exotic species such as pine and the goal of easing how farmers eucalyptus. This is one of the main and investors perceived risk in bottlenecks in the industry. restoration. The book presents data on the growth rate and quality of WRI Brasil coordinates an effort high-value native species as the with several specialists and partners result of approximately a 40-year to develop and implement an R&D experiment in the Vale Nature program for forestry with native Reserve, in Linhares, in the Brazilian species, led by the Brazilian Coalition state of Espírito Santo. on Climate, Forests, and Agriculture. As a result of this joint effort, the "Research Gaps and Priorities in Silviculture of Native Species in Brazil" working paper was launched during the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) 2019 World Congress.

Porto Seguro. Photo by Asteroide.

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GENDER-FOCUSED RESTORATION IN THE AMAZON AND THE SEMIARID REGION

WRI Brasil implements restoration financial resources and increasing projects that focus on strengthening the number of demonstration gender equality and social inclusion units, disseminating good practices in different regions of the country. amongst farmers and communities, and expanding the fruit supply to the In Pintadas, in the state of , an pulp industry. initiative financed by Good Energies made advances in implementing A similar initiative is being developed demonstration units in the in the Pará town of Juruti, in the semiarid region of the Caatinga Amazon region. We teamed up biome (Brazilian drylands) and in with local partners and received knowledge sharing between members funding from the Alcoa Foundation of associations and cooperatives of to help implement 10 hectares of local farmers. demonstrative agroforestry system units. Women and young people We work with several partners took part in the planning and to expand the work carried out implementation phases. Planning was in Pintadas to other successful based on the needs and capabilities cases in the Brazilian semiarid of local communities. Collecting region. The goal is to disseminate information, monitoring results, information to scale up restoration and implementing a communication and agriculture techniques suitable strategy have been fundamental for for the drylands. We assist our disseminating and expanding the local partner in Pintadas in finding initiative in the region.

11 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR Pintadas. Photo by Bruno Felin/WRI Brasil. OUR WORK IN 2019

NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS

Technology and infrastructure inspired by nature or that include natural elements as part of their systems have many co-benefits and are smart investments in urban and rural environments. After a study proved that the economic benefits far outweighed the costs of implementing a natural infrastructure (forest restoration and conservation, soil conservation) to improve water quality and reduce treatment costs in the Cantareira (São Paulo) and Guandu () systems, WRI Brasil started working with Sanasa, the water company of the of Campinas.

In addition to demonstrating the effectiveness of the natural infrastructure approach, the findings and lessons learned from this effort have been included in local restoration plans. They have the potential to attract public and private funding to scale up nature-based solutions as a strategy to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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RESTORATION OPPORTUNITIES ASSESSMENT IN SÃO PAULO, , AND ESPÍRITO SANTO

The success of restoration initiatives depends on a number of factors, such as engaging players and what motivates the producers in each location. The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) uses a participatory approach, aiming to coordinate the leading players who Mariana. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil. are interested in restoration in order to understand their needs, challenges, and interests. OTHER INITIATIVES Through the Germany-funded One of the outputs of ROAM is Pro-Restaura project, WRI Brasil is the engagement process and the In addition to the highlights of WRI Brasil has also been working using ROAM to develop restoration strengthening of a governance the main projects, the Forests closely with economist and former strategies in three regions: Vale structure that ensures that the Program team has partnered with Minister of Finance Joaquim do Paraíba (state of São Paulo), restoration is successful and long- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Levy and the Atlantic Forest supported by the Nascentes Program; standing. Another vital output is that to develop and implement large- Restoration Pact to develop a in the north of the state of Espírito it defines restoration interventions scale restoration by establishing proposal to support the restoration Santo, with the Reflorestar Program; based on what motivates the leading payment for ecosystem services of one million hectares of and in the state of Minas Gerais, in local players and the cost-benefit and other financial controls in degraded pastures in the Atlantic the Doce River basin, joining efforts analyses of these interventions. the Conservador da Mantiqueira Forest through Assisted Natural with the Renovando Paisagem This effort will allow us to develop Project and in the Reflorestar Regeneration. project, financed by the Renova restoration action plans and support Program. Foundation. on-site implementation.

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Role of ABC Plan and PLANAVEG in the Adaptation of Brazilian Agriculture to Climate Change

This working paper presents a matrix showing the potential for resilience and adaptation to climate change of the primary production and restoration systems indicated by the ABC Plan and PLANAVEG to help investors, financial agents, PUBLICATIONS and insurance companies with risk assessments.

Silviculture and Wood Properties of Native Research Gaps and Priorities in the Silviculture of Species of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil Native Species in Brazil

This WRI Brasil and VERENA Project This working paper identifies the gaps in the collaboration presents an overview of forestry current state of scientific knowledge. It defines systems with native species from the Atlantic investment priorities in R&D to promote Forest in northern Espírito Santo, with biometric the silviculture of native Brazilian species, models for 35 forest species. determining the total investment necessary to overcome the existing barriers and project the short-, medium-, and long-term R&D Platform benefits in different scales.

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CITIES HELP TO PROTECT FORESTS

Forests provide many services to Governments for Sustainability city life. They contribute to the air (ICLEI), also participate in the and water quality, generate climate meetings. resilience, protect biodiversity, and promote well-being. The In addition to support from WRI Cities4Forests initiative has Brasil, Brazilian cities use tools and established a global network of technical support from our global cities dedicated to supporting and team and can exchange experiences catalyzing actions to protect, restore, with other cities throughout the and manage forests on three scales: world. inner, nearby, and faraway forests. In 2019, WRI Brasil's Cities and In 2019, WRI Brasil, in partnership Forests Programs supported with the Frente Nacional de Campinas's municipal government Prefeitos (FNP), a Brazilian Mayoral organization, increased Brazilian with forest conservation and participation in the project from restoration actions across their four to nine cities. Currently, the . The work in cities of São Paulo, Campinas, Belo partnership with the city government, Horizonte, Salvador, Palmas, Rio the Water Supply and Sanitation Branco, , Macapá, and Society of Campinas (Sociedade de São Luís are part of the initiative. The project entails monthly meetings Abastecimento de Água e Saneamento and technical support in initiatives de Campinas, or SANASA, in ranging from urban afforestation Portuguese), and ICLEI, may lead to and nature-based solutions to forest implementing natural infrastructures restoration and water management. to reduce costs and improve water Partner organizations, such as Plant supply quality for the coming years. for the Planet, the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), and Local

Campinas. Photo by Renan Pissolatti/WRI Brasil.

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Brazilian cities offer excellent opportunities to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future by promoting a more inclusive and equal urban environment, lower in carbon and resilient to climate change.

WRI Brasil operates with a multidisciplinary outlook for achieving a transformation of the urban space that promotes more active and safer mobility, CITIES increasing access to opportunities for all through better land-use planning and better public transport, and to reduce the vulnerability of low-income populations to climate change by prioritizing nature- based solutions.

São Paulo. Photo by Pedro Mascaro/WRI Brasil.

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THE RUAS COMPLETAS (COMPLETE STREETS) PROJECT IMPROVES STREETS IN BRAZILIAN CITIES

Shifting to an urban design paradigm São Paulo launched the first pilot that prioritizes the most vulnerable project, increasing pedestrian space users and the most sustainable from 29% to 70%, and received an modes of transportation can benefit approval rating of 92%* among everyone, offering more safety and the users. , Juiz de well-being and reducing pollution Fora, Salvador, Fortaleza, , and traffic congestion. In 2017, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Brazilian cities initiated this process Mesquita, and Niterói followed São by implementing complete streets, Paulo's example. in a program created by WRI Brasil in partnership with the FNP. and included the Academia has also become a partner Ruas Completas principles in their in training young professionals to Master Plans, establishing the design safer and more pleasant urban foundation for large-scale street environments. design changes. The complete streets concept has been widely In 2019, 20 cities (one-fifth of disseminated using a comprehensive Brazil's population) had implemented communication strategy, including Ruas Completas (Complete Streets), a series of webinars that address interdisciplinary and cross-cutting redistributing the street space to content. prioritize pedestrians and cyclists. Because of its impact, the project was *Source: Labmob/UFRJ awarded at the global ceremony that celebrated the most significant results of the year among all of WRI's offices.

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São Paulo. Photo by Victor Moriyama/WRI Brasil.

ROAD SAFETY IS PROGRESSING WRI Brasil supported the cities of Fortaleza managed to reduce its IN SÃO PAULO AND FORTALEZA São Paulo and Fortaleza in road traffic fatality rate by 50.3% in five safety initiatives that focus on urban years, attaining the UN target. São Brazil is the fifth country on the mobility and street design. Paulo launched the first Road Safety list of the most dangerous traffic in The activities included continuous Plan made in Brazil in April 2019, the world, and reaching the United developed according to the Vision Nations' (UN) goal of reducing training on road safety, audits Zero concept. Actions the city is fatalities by 50% by the end of 2020 and inspections of the main bus is a challenge, despite Brazilian cities' corridors, implementing redesigned already implementing help catalyze advances in road safety. Working intersections, planning complete the interventions recommended by with the Bloomberg Philanthropies street projects, and support in other municipal plans, such as the preparing Road Safety Plans for both Initiative for Global Road Safety, Cycling Plan. cities.

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INOVEMOB CHALLENGE STIMULATED MOBILITY SOLUTIONS

A partnership between WRI Brasil for the technology devised by and the Toyota Mobility Foundation, Simony César will contribute to its the InoveMob Challenge awarded improvement. Bynd's corporate five projects that innovatively ride app increased the demand for addressed urban mobility challenges. rides by five times in the companies The five finalist startups received that adopted it and attracted an funding, technical support, and the investment of BRL 1.2 million (USD opportunity to present their solution 215,000). Carona a Pé established to Brazilian cities willing to embrace a partnership with Toyota do Brasil innovation. In 2019, four of the to implement its walking-to-school five projects caught the attention of stimulus solution for children from 15 Brazilian cities. municipal schools in Sorocaba. The digital ticketing company OnBoard The Nina platform, created to Mobility won Brazil's National combat sexual harassment in public Association of Urban Transport transport, was implemented in Companies (Associação Nacional das Fortaleza and is expected to reach Empresas de Transportes Urbanos, Cuiabá and Guarulhos. Its positive or NTU, in Portuguese) Collective impact was highlighted at WRI's Challenge and drew the attention of global ceremony that celebrates the several bus operating companies in year's most significant results. The Brazil. awards and international recognition

Belo Horizonte. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil.

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SUSTAINABLE URBAN FINANCING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY BASED ON MASTER PLANS Quality infrastructure makes cities more resilient and has the Municipal master plans are one of the city's new macro-zoning and as potential to attract financing from the main opportunities and tools to part of a discussion group formed by international companies, who promote more equitable, compact, multiple players. are increasingly judicious about and low-carbon cities. WRI Brasil project sustainability. Technical, offers technical support to Brazilian In partnership with the Lincoln institutional, and political barriers cities for developing plans that Institute of Land Policy, WRI Brasil hinder access to green investments in integrate land-use planning and held seminars about a Land Value Brazilian cities. To overcome them, transportation infrastructure and Capture mechanism called OODC WRI Brasil coordinates the Rede de incorporate financing mechanisms (Portuguese acronym for Charges Financiamento em Infraestrutura to promote a more equal distribution for Building Rights) in November Sustentável nas Cidades (Portuguese of charges and investments in the 2019. The event discussed the for, Financing Network for territory. importance of this land value capture Sustainable City Infrastructure), or instrument in promoting a more Rede FISC. Approved in 2019, the new Teresina equal distribution of infrastructure Master Plan is a milestone for the city. investments. It also contributed to The network includes multilateral With comprehensive support from forming a discussion group with and bilateral development banks the 13 participating municipal (World Bank, CAF, AFD, and EIB) WRI Brasil, the new law includes TOD secretariats of Development and and Brazilian and regional financial (Transit-Oriented Development) as a Urban Planning. institutions such as Caixa, BNDES, central urban development strategy BDMG, and BRDE. Throughout 2019, in Teresina. The plan also regulates WRI Brasil promoted a series of land value capture tools that can online and face-to-face meetings to generate resources for investment in fortify the participants' commitment and develop a common action sustainable infrastructure. plan. Rede Fisc is aligned with the Cities4Forests project, contributing WRI Brasil also supports the with a unique approach to investing development of Rio de Janeiro's new in nature-based solutions in cities. Master Plan, primarily in defining

Teresina. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI Brasil.

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ELECTRIC BUSES IN BRAZIL

Electric mobility in public transport is part of the transition to a low- carbon, greener, and more resilient economy. Chile and Colombia lead the implementation of electric buses in , but Brazilian cities are growing interested in this SUPPORTING COLOMBIA AND transformation. CHILE WITH ELECTRIC BUSES

WRI Brasil has created a Experts from WRI in Brasil, methodology to support the Mexico, and the United States development of new business offered technical support in models capable of overcoming one planning and purchasing nearly of the leading identified challenges 1,000 electric buses in Medellín — the high capital cost. In 2019, and Bogotá (Colombia) and we supported Belo Horizonte, São Santiago (Chile). The initiative, Paulo, and Fortaleza in structuring which will benefit more than 16 electric bus projects that can reduce million inhabitants in the three emissions and improve the quality of cities, was one of WRI's 2019 bus systems in Brazil. global highlights.

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BENCHMARKING GROUP OF TRANSPORTATION OPERATORS

All around the world, public transportation loses customers to less-sustainable modes. An increasing number of Brazilian cities have begun to assess passenger satisfaction and share good practices to improve the quality of service on their bus systems. Established by WRI Brasil with financial support from FedEx, the QualiÔnibus Program closed 2019 with impressive growth, going from 10 to 14 participating cities.

Good local practices are being replicated in other cities. Belo Horizonte, for example, has just implemented stickers in its bus fleet, indicating the drivers' blind spots. This practice began in Fortaleza and increases the safety of public transportation as a whole and protects pedestrians, motorcyclists, and cyclists. Uberlândia, Fortaleza, and Juiz de Fora are improving the quality of bus stops with features that make passengers more comfortable while they are waiting for the bus. The idea was based on Belo Horizonte's example and was improved in a brainstorming session that involved all four cities.

Belo Horioznte. Photo by Nereu Jr./WRI Brasil.

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QUALIÔNIBUS

Quality Management Tools In Portuguese

The guide presents the Satisfaction Survey, the Quality Indicators, and the Benchmarking Group, aiming at improving the quality of the public bus transportation service in Brazilian cities. PUBLICATIONS Satisfaction Survey Manual In Portuguese

The manual explains how to do the Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Satisfaction Survey, which is standardized Ababa, and Hyderabad: Differing Interpretations, to allow benchmarking while also being Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions flexible, so it can be used in different cities. This publication is an impact analysis of the use of instruments for the value capture of urban land in Addis Ababa, Hyderabad, and São Paulo, published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Day One of Operations in collaboration with WRI Brasil. The study In Portuguese highlights the relevance of the legal and planning processes, available financial tools, conditions, Guides management bodies and public and dynamics of the real estate market, and the transport systems bus operators in the government's role in designing and implementing preparation of operations manuals and land value capture tools. contingency procedures adapted to the new transportation systems.

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Belo Horizonte. Photo by Rafael Tavares, Octopus Filmes/WRI Brasil.

CLIMATE AND CITIES FOR (WHO) air quality standards and quality map and to identify not only AIR QUALITY reduce short-lived climatic pollutant the levels of pollution but the local emissions. sources. We promoted the training of young leaders in urban health and WRI Brasil's Cities and Climate climate change and strengthen the Programs work together to WRI Brasil worked to raise inclusion of air quality topics in the strengthen the air quality agenda in awareness, monitor, and build schools' curriculum. Brazilian cities. The initiative was an action plan for two schools in designed to establish a space for São Paulo to reduce children's WRI Brasil also fostered the discussion and create an action plan exposure to air pollution. In the discussion on air quality in to move forward with implementing Brasilândia and Cidade Tiradentes partnership with other organizations air quality policies in large Brazilian neighborhoods, we installed low- at events with hundreds of cities, encouraging them to follow cost sensors that allowed these areas participants. the World Health Organization to be included in the São Paulo air

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Adopting a low-carbon economy could deliver at least USD 26 trillion worldwide by 2030. WRI Brasil's Climate program aims to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy in Brazil. This transition is not about disruption, but about prioritizing technologies and practices that already exist and can lead to economic growth, job creation, and the fight against poverty while reducing carbon emissions to limit climate change and prepare our societies for the climate challenges of the 21st century.

In addition to unlocking Brazil's economic growth, the transition to a low-carbon CLIMATE economy produces benefits such as improving air quality, reducing disease, and increasing life expectancy.

Sobradinho. Photo by Ministério do Planejamento.

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A NEW ECONOMY FOR BRAZIL

Inspired by the New Climate In partnership with specialists from Economy (NCE), the New Economy for the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Climate Brazil (NEB) initiative aims to identify Policy Initiative (CPI), Federal a green growth path to stimulate University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/ sustainable social and economic UFRJ), Institute of Applied Economic development and make a more Research (IPEA), The Brazilian competitive, productive, and efficient Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN), economy. and Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS), Throughout 2019, WRI Brasil we started the "A New Economy for a combined research and engagement New Era" study, which identifies the strategy to provide an accurate leading opportunities and advantages economic analysis and encourage for the country to prioritize the decision-makers and relevant transition to a low-carbon economy partners in the country to get in comparison to business as usual. involved with the initiative. The effort We also strengthened communication endeavors to identify and propose channels with the public, financial, viable solutions to the barriers and business sectors. hindering the transition to a "New Economy for Brazil", a low-carbon economy that is more advantageous for the country.

Belo Horizonte/MG. Foto: Ronaldo Almeida/Shutterstock. Photo by José Medeiros/GEcomMT.

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TRANSPARENCY AND GOVERNANCE

WRI Brasil supports the public, or SIRENE). The initiative is a private, and financial sectors in partnership with the Ministry of adopting tools that help them Science, Technology and Innovation monitor their contribution to the (MCTI) and the Alberto Luiz Coimbra reduction of GHG emissions using Institute of the Federal University of indicators and implement Brazil's Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ). Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). We support the Global In August 2019, WRI Brasil's Governance Center in adapting leadership and the Climate Program and using the Climate Governance Team attended the regional Latin Analysis in Brazil. We also support America and the Caribbean Climate the Open Government Partnership Week (LACCW), held in Salvador and (OGP) Working Group on the climate participated or collaborated in the goal of Brazil's Fourth OGP Action organization of several events. The Plan—developing an assessment tool team made advancements in climate to monitor climate policy in Brazil. discussions that preceded the United Nations Climate Change Conference We validated the GHG Protocol (COP 25), in particular, Article 6 of for the silviculture calculation tool the Paris Agreement (carbon pricing), to support Brazil's agriculture and nature-based solutions, NDCs as forestry sectors in fulfilling their stimuli for Long-Term Climate climate mitigation commitments. Strategies, and the search for a field We are working to adapt the of strategic and common action to Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) to support cities in actions for cleaner the governmental GHG emissions air. registration platform (Sistema de Registro Nacional de Emissões,

Photo by Paula Vieira/Idam.

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WRIBRASIL.ORG

701,589

242,077 196 2018 2019 Pageviews Blogs COMMUNICATION +190%

Communication plays a central role in WRI FACEBOOK Brasil's work. By giving visibility to our projects and results, in our channels and in the press, communication contributes to multiplying the ideas and actions we promote. Fans/Followers Engagement

In 2019, our communication strategy 31,347 +129% focused on two main pillars: increasing +31% qualified website traffic and digital engagement and broadening the dissemination of our messages through LINKEDIN the press.

Fans/Followers Engagemen 5,383 +180% +109%

*compared to 2018 results Photo by Tui Anandi.

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WRI BRASIL IN THE MEDIA

Evolution of the number of media hits

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29 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR BOARD AND LEADERSHIP

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marcelo Furtado Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Director, Fundação Alana

Manish Bapna Executive Vice President and Managing Director, WRI

Janet Ranganathan AUDIT COMMITTEE Vice President of Science and Research, WRI Diogo de Souza Dias Franklin Feder Chairman of the Audit Committee Former Regional Executive President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Alcoa Tiniti Matsumoto Junior BOARD AND Anamaria Schindler Marcelo Torres Co-President Emeritus, Ashoka LEADERSHIP Orlando Strambi Professor and Coordinator of the WRI BRASIL Department of Transportation LEADERSHIP TEAM Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP) Rachel Biderman Valmir Ortega Executive Director Executive Director, Conexsus Karla Battistella Denise Hills Operations Director Global Director of Sustainability, Natura Luis Antonio Lindau Johannes van de Ven Cities Program Director CEO, Good Energies Carolina Genin Leonardo Fleck Climate Program Director Program Officer, Conservation and Markets Initiatives, Gordon and Betty Fernanda Boscaini Moore Foundation Communications Director

Campinas. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil.

30 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR TEAM

Total team Team Composition by Age

5% 59 to 77 years old Dec. 2018 70 (1942-1960)

29% 38 to 58 years old Dec. 2019 60 (1961-1981) 66% 19 to 37 years old (1982-2000)

Team Composition by Gender

Interns Employees Managers Directors

Women Men 4 56 8 6 TEAM

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WORKING GROUPS

Working Groups (WG) are formed by employees from different internal departments and support WRI Brasil in assimilating fundamental topics for the organization's institutional and programmatic activities. They are dedicated to stimulating actions and discussions on values such as sustainability and diversity and carefully verifying how data is collected and used in the organization's projects and research work.

Belo Horizonte. Photo by Rafael Tavares, Octopus Filmes/WRI Brasil.

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DIVERSITY WG

WRI Brasil, like the entire World Resources Institute network, believes that building a better future depends on inclusion, equity, and sustainability. There is no room for regression: organizations must reflect the diversity and complexity of the societies they intend to represent. FACE-TO-FACE ACTIVITIES SEEDS OF DIVERSITY

The Diversity Working Group aims to The WG's face-to-face activities The WG periodically prepares the consolidate the organization's systematic put the team in direct contact Seeds of Diversity newsletter and search for diversity and inclusion, both and exchanges with specialists, emails it to the entire organization internally and externally. Recognized activists, and entrepreneurs from with information, reading by WRI's Global Leadership Team as a minority groups, i.e., women, suggestions, and other content. In reference for the organization, the WG black people, or LGBTQI+. In 2019, topics worked on included, fosters discussions so that new hires 2019, group dynamics were held in for example, the Indigenous Rights prioritize expanding the social, ethnic, LGBTQI+ Pride month (June) and Defense Day, International Women's racial, sexual, and gender diversity of WRI Brazil's Black Awareness month Day, International LGBTQI+ Pride Brasil's staff. They also work to permeate (November). The initiative also Day, and Brazil's Black Awareness the projects developed by the Cities, includes internal communication Day. The continuous training of Climate, and Forests programs. actions, such as temporarily employees must raise awareness and changing the names of the rooms allow them to take the lead and work in the offices in honor of those who to incorporate diversity in their daily are a reference for the struggles practices. these groups face for rights and representation.

Porto Alegre. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil.

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DIVERSITY WG + SUSTAINABILITY WG

PARKING POLICY INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE UPDATE OF THE EVENTS POLICY SUSTAINABILITY Over the years, the WG has implemented actions to raise Created in 2017, the Events Policy W G Porto Alegre. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil. awareness and promote sustainable values the sustainability of the transportation, with activities meetings promoted by WRI Brasil, during the national no traffic week, encouraging practices that guarantee Sustainability is the heart of WRI BIKE TO WORK DAY gamification of employees' bicycle less waste and environmental impact Brasil's work, and our organizational trips, and implementing a work from to be adopted. In 2019, the Diversity policies and team's behavior should In Brazil, Bike to Work Day is home policy, among other actions. and Sustainability WGs worked reflect this value. Since 2016, the celebrated on the second Friday After the leadership team brought it together to update the policy to also Sustainability Working Group, of May. One of the activities to attention, it was understood that promote inclusion and diversity in supported by the leadership team and promoted in 2019 was the "Bike it was time to step up and discourage the events that WRI Brasil promotes other departments, has promoted the Anjo" (Portuguese for Bike Angel) driving a car. Thus, a parking policy and to foster a more critical analysis sustainability agenda based on three campaign. The WG identified was implemented for parking spaces of those in which the organization pillars: urban mobility, recycling, and employees who regularly rode their in the São Paulo and Porto Alegre participates. Guidelines were added sustainable events. bikes to work and designated them offices, designed to stimulate thought that promote diversity among as "angels" for colleagues willing, on the impacts of driving cars and speakers (gender, ethnicity, regional, but still lacking the courage, to ride in line with the precepts of the among others) and point out areas of a bicycle alone to work. The group corporate mobility project developed concern regarding the infrastructure also organized an after-work ride by WRI Brasil. of the locations as a way of including to encourage infrequent or less- persons with disabilities (PWD) in experienced cyclists. the audience and on the panels.

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DATA WG Recife. Photo by Daniel Hunter/WRI Brasil.

The creation of the Data Working How do we respond effectively and and provide the storage and security Group was proposed in October 2019, quickly to the needs of projects for the data generated internally in in line with the approach to analyze, and include this information into our projects. An area for training on change, and multiply, and given the new projects? The Data WG is new tools and information sources institutional focus on WRI's research. determined to clarify these issues was also created, which facilitated The Data Working Group supports by working in three major areas: transferring information between compiling and disseminating sound (1) database of internally generated WRI Brasil offices and external and reliable data from the institution's information, (2) mapping and entities and offices. projects and activities. facilitating access to external data, and (3) training on tools and The group also aims to map the tools databases. and needs of its eight members, the three topic areas, and the core The group's first idea was to create area and bring the organization's a data repository, which makes it representativeness into the easier to find relevant information discussions.

35 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR PARTNERS AND DONORS

ARCONIC Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Alcoa Foundation Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC) Banco Itaú Instituto Clima e Sociedade (ICS) Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, UK (BEIS) Germany's International Climate Initiative (IKI) Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Bloomberg Philanthropies Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment Ministry of the Environment, Nature P A R T N E R S Conservation, and Nuclear Safety of Norway's International Climate and AND DONORS Germany (BMU) Forest Initiative (NICFI) Centro de Estudios Economicos de la OAK Foundation Industria de la Construcción (CEEIC) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Children's Investment Fund Chile (PUC-CoE) Foundation (CIFF) Shell Foundation Road Assessment Services, Ltd. (CycleRAP) Stephen M. Ross Philanthropies

FedEx Foundation Toyota Mobility Foundation

Renova Foundation World Bank

Good Energies Foundation

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36 WRIBRASIL.ORG.BR FINANCIAL

FINANCIAL Total Revenue* from 2016 to 2019 in BRL Total Revenue per program in BRL 25 MM 25,038,671 24,633,153 Despite the challenging external scenario, 20 MM 23,121,178 in 2019, WRI Brasil maintained the previous 19,796,846 year's collection level, as shown in the 15 MM graphs below. 10 MM

Throughout 2019, we continued improving 5 MM and reinforcing our internal controls and policies, ensuring data integrity, security, 2016 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 and transparency in the institute's *Grants and fee for service financial reports and the projects it Cities Forests Climate Core supervises.

In regard to our teams, we encourage Total Revenue in 2019 diversity and seek to empower new leaders, providing them with training BRL 9,975,714 and innovative tools to support them in 42% National funds managing their teams. 58% BRL 14,005,131 Foreign funds

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