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The sustainable development has had an important contribution from United Nations across the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Goal 17 is called Partnerships for the Goals and is considered a way to figure out paths to stablish projects that can bring benefits to the environment, society and the economy. One of the purposes is encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of multi-stakeholder partnerships.Considering mining industry, it is possible to observe that social license to operate is one critical issue that is affecting reputation and performance of some companies in Brazil. This is due to some environmental impacts and difficulties to stablish a reasonable relationship with communities around mined areas.The paper presents the results of a multi-stakeholder discussion promoted with the participation of around 50 people from different organizations and civil society related to the mining industry. The initiative identified some opportunities that can make easier the social and legal permits related to the mine projects in Brazil. Some outcomes of the meeting were:• The participants agreed that this is an important initiative for mining sector in Brazil;• It is necessary to work together to make mine projects more inclusive and related to the regional development planning. • With good management and governance, the mine projects have an important structural role in society, contributing to economic and socio-environmental development.• There is a relationship between small-scale and large-scale mines in Brazil. Improvements in sustainability in small-scale mines can benefits large scale ones and vice-versa.• Mining companies in Brazil needs to rely on public policies considering socio-environmental and political aspects in order to ensure a balanced coexistence with the society.• Brazil has a geological setting that can make mine sector stronger than nowadays: mining like a driven of regional sustainable development.The experience in this research demonstrates that the concepts of the Goal 17 can be a strong tool to provide the development of mine sector, since promote partnerships that consider aspects related to the different parts of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Latest studies estimate land use intensity of wind-powered electricity around 0.3–1.3 m2 MWh-1 [1]. This is significantly lower compared to biomass-powered electricity, which land use intensity is estimated around 450-800 m2 MWh-1 [1]. Hence, the significant contribution of biomass energy to land-use change, particularly in countries like Brazil, is widely known. In contrary, low land use intensity of wind-powered electricity suggests that contribution of its infrastructure to land-use change is minor. However, some studies point out the potential restriction of land use for human settlements, negative impact on biodiversity [1] and occurring land conflicts [2] due to wind-powered electricity infrastructure. Better knowledge of wind-powered electricity infrastructure impact on land use change require investigation of related land cover patterns. For discovering those patterns, we focus on two major questions:- What land cover is favourable for VRES infrastructure deployment?- What land-use changes follow the VRES infrastructure deployment?Our case study focuses on wind parks deployed during past 25 years in Brazil. For spatiotemporal analysis of land cover patterns in Brazil, we combine annual land-use and land cover time series – available from 1985 to 2017 – with locations of wind generation infrastructure, transmission grids and transportation network [3].Land cover patterns related to wind parks deployment will improve our understanding of its role in current land use change, and allow the assessment of future land use change in case of extensive wind parks deployment. [1] Uwe R. Fritsche et al. „Energy and Land Use". Global Land Outlook Working Paper (2017).[2] C. Brannstrom, A. Gorayeb, J. S. Mendes, C. Loureiro, A. J. A. Meireles, E. V. Silva, A. L. R. Freitas, R.F. Oliveira. Is Brazilian wind power development sustainable? Insights from a review of conflicts in Ceará state. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2017), 67, p. 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.08.047[3] MapBiomas Project - Collection v.3.0 of the Annual Land Use Land Cover Maps of Brazil: http://mapbiomas.org/map#coverage [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]