The Political Economy of Climate Change Mitigation in Argentina, Brazil and Peru

Larissa Basso

doi:10.16993/iberoamericana.614

The Political Economy of Climate Change Mitigation in Argentina, Brazil and Peru

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Volume 53 (2024): Issue 1

By: Larissa Basso

Open Access

|Mar 2024

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