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This study addresses the problem of defining the scope and substance of the climate adaptation policy, which operates with comprehensive objectives and engages with multiple meanings, policy tools, and sectors to allow societies to cope with the effects of climate change. Analyzing the design of Brazil's National Adaptation Plan sheds light on the main goals and tools of the country's adaptation strategy for the rural sector and its divergent policy approaches at distinct subnational levels. This study shows that the government's ambition for promoting change drove the design process by mainstreaming climate adaptation goals into well-established development agendas, but it resulted in the layering of existing sector-based instruments. The Plan became a mix of loosely coordinated and inconsistent strategies, lacking a common implementation approach. Thereby, this analysis provides insight into the politics of adaptation policies and the challenges of promoting policy integration in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Climate Change Convention completed during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. The Convention were negotiated for 2 months before it was ratified at the conference. Based on the article, the formal negotiations for the Convention assessed the scientific and political investigation of the global warming problem. It is said that the U.S. was able to prevent the Convention from referring to direct targets and timetables. Under the Convention, actions undertaken by developing countries would be conditional on assistance from the industrialized world.

The article discusses the legal significance of the environmental policies created during the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 2 to 12. Based on the article, the nature and extent of environmental problems since the 1972 Stockholm Conference has changed. At UNCED, the participants have to address problems like climate change and ozone depletion. So they were able to complete two conventions, one is for climate change and the second one is for on the preservation of biological diversity.