The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil inherited, in its National Forest Program, a formidable proposal to increase the area designated to national forests (Flonas) in the Amazon from eight to 50 million hectares by the year 2010. This objective is an ambitious and worthy conservation goal, and one that appears to be holding approval, give or take a few million hectares, within the new government. Attached to this plan, however, is a lingering desire to allow private timber harvesting on Flonas through a system of forest concessions.
Mudanças Climáticas, o Protocolo de Quioto e o Mercado de Carbono
O documento faz uma análise histórica sobre o aumento significativo nas concentrações dos gases de efeito estufa. Aborda também o objetivo do Protocolo de Quioto e das Conferências sobre mudanças Climáticas e mecanismos de flexibilização como o mercado de carbono.