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Brazil and the United States: Kindred Spirits in the Energy and Climate Arenas / Sérgio Pacca and Vivian Thomson, Planet Policy, 14/01/2015http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/planetpolicy/posts/2015/01/14-brazil-united-states-energy-climate-thomson-pacca?Now that President Dilma Rousseff has been reelected, she must prepare a national energy and climate change agenda for the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations. Rousseff has promised to continue her nation’s commitment to reducing deforestation. But she faces criticism because deforestation rates in the Amazon increased by 30 percent between 2012 and 2013, despite a steady, multi-year decline starting in 2004...