Brazil-China Cooperation for Sustainable Development
IPAM produces research on the relationship between Brazil and China across climate, trade, and environmental conservation agendas - from protecting the Cerrado and the Amazon to opportunities for sustainable cooperation between the two countries. Explore two IPAM...
Instrumentos econômicos de apoio à implementação do novo Código Florestal
Em vista da lenta implementação dos mecanismos previstos no Capítulo X do Código Florestal e a necessidade de trazer o tema para o conhecimento público, o Observatório do Código Florestal realizou em Brasília no dia 14 de novembro de 2014 o seminário Instrumentos...
Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing
Land use transitions during the 2000s reduced contemporaneous evapotranspiration (ET) in the Xingu region by 35 km3 and warmed the land surface temperature (LST) by 0.3 °C.
The role of leaf traits in determining litter flammability of south-eastern Amazon tree species
Leaf traits can limit or promote flammability, but how these traits vary and influence forest flammability in humid tropical forests is unknown. Species within the south-eastern transitional forests of the Brazilian Amazon are experiencing fire, particularly...
Terras indígenas na Amazônia brasileira: do orçamento à mitigação da mudança climática
Na Amazônia brasileira, os povos indígenas detêm uma parcela significativa das florestas da região. O conjunto de suas Terras cobre cerca de 110 milhões de hectares e agrega aproximadamente 30% do carbono florestal da região, o que corresponde a algo por volta de...
Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon: from budgeting to climate change mitigation
Despite the obvious and proven importance of Indigenous Lands (ILs) to mitigate climate change effects, funds allocated by the government for the management and development in ILs still fall very short of the necessary level.
Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity
Tropical forests harbor a significant portion of global biodiversity and are a critical component of the climate system. Reducing deforestation and forest degradation contributes to global climate-change mitigation efforts, yet emissions and removals from forest...