Biblioteca

Documentos e relatórios
Redução das Emissões provenientes do Desmatamento e da Degradação (REDD): Propostas atuais e a UNFCCCReducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD): Current Proposals and the UNFCCC

Redução das Emissões provenientes do Desmatamento e da Degradação (REDD): Propostas atuais e a UNFCCCReducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD): Current Proposals and the UNFCCC

A apresentação enfatiza a proposta de REDD, o que o mecanismo pode acarretar e o plano de ação de Bali.This document emphasizes in REDD mechanism, its proposals and Bali decision on REDD.

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...