PNMC

National Plan on Climate Change (Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, PNMC, in Portuguese) is the Brazilian official voluntary commitment with the UNFCCC to achieve greenhouse gases cut between 36.1% and 38.9% of the 2020 projected emissions.

It has established by the Brazilian Act 12,187. The Decree 7390/2010 describes the baseline in 3.236 GtCO2e, or a dropt to 1.168 GtCO2e and 1.259 GtCO2e emissions.

Veja também

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Climate Change Convention

See UNFCCC.

ARPA

Brazilian Portuguese acronym for Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia (ARPA), which means Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. The program was launched in 2002 by Federal Decree #4,326 and went into operation in 2003. The ARPA program aims to protect significant...

Undesignated Public Forests

Undesignated public forests located in the Amazon are lands under the jurisdiction of state or federal governments that are awaiting allocation to a specific land-use category, as established by the Public Forest Management Law (Law No. 11,284/2006). Together, they...