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Artigos científicos
The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters

The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters

Negotiations are proceeding for a new international climate change regime that will compensate tropical nations that reduce their carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. In anticipation of this new mechanism designed to slow deforestation,...

Artigos científicos
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point

Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point

Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may...

Documentos e relatórios
Clima florestal em Bali

Clima florestal em Bali

Artigo opinativo na revista Página 22 sobre a Conferência do Clima (COP13) em dezembro de 2007, que afastou o risco de descontinuidade do mercado de carbono após 2012 e, finalmente, decidiu tratar das emissões do desmatamento tropical. ABIFADEL, MARIA FERNANDA;...