Os incêndios no Brasil em 2024 geraram níveis históricos de emissões
O objetivo deste policy brief foi estimar as emissões brutas de gases de efeito estufa causadas pelos incêndios de 2024 no Brasil e destacar a relevância desse componente no perfil de emissões do país. Para isso, desagregamos a análise das áreas afetadas pelo fogo...
O Código Florestal e o alcance das metas brasileiras da COP 21: oportunidades e desafios
Cálculos do IPAM mostram a necessidade de se obter desmatamento zero - legal e ilegal - no Brasil para o cumprimento das metas nacionais de redução de emissão de gases estufa até 2030.
The seasonal carbon and water balances of the Cerrado environment of Brazil: Past, present, and future influences of land cover and land use
The Brazilian savanna (known as Cerrado) is an upland biome made up of various vegetation types from herbaceous to arboreal. In this paper, MODIS remote sensing vegetation greenness from the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and evapotranspiration (ET) data for the...
Cumprimento do Código Florestal por compradores de commodities: análise para informação do Observatório do Código Florestal
O estudo tem como objetivo realizar um levantamento preliminar dos principais mecanismos e entraves à implementação do Código Florestal nas cadeias de fornecimento de grandes empresas privadas.
Brazil’s Market for Trading Forest Certificates
Brazil faces an enormous challenge to implement its revised Forest Code. Despite big losses for the environment, the law introduces new mechanisms to facilitate compliance and foster payment for ecosystem services (PES). The most promising of these is a market for...
Land-use change affects water recycling in Brazil’s last agricultural frontier
Historically, conservation-oriented research and policy in Brazil have focused on Amazon deforestation, but a majority of Brazil's deforestation and agricultural expansion has occurred in the neighboring Cerrado biome, a biodiversity hotspot comprised of dry...
Land-use change affects water recycling in Brazil's last agricultural frontier
Historically, conservation-oriented research and policy in Brazil have focused on Amazon deforestation, but a majority of Brazil's deforestation and agricultural expansion has occurred in the neighboring Cerrado biome, a biodiversity hotspot comprised of dry...