Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
Estimulando a demanda por reduções de emissões de REDD+ no Brasil
Informações preliminares do quinto relatório de avaliação (AR5; sigla em inglês) do Painel Intergovernamental sobre as Alterações Climáticas (IPCC; sigla em inglês) mostram que o tempo para limitar o aquecimento global a 2°C neste século está se esgotando. Ações globais de redução de emissões de gases do efeito estufa (GEE) para que se atinja este objetivo se tornam ainda mais urgentes.
Amazônia e as Eleições 2014: Oportunidades e Desafios para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável
A plataforma Amazônia e as Eleições 2014: Oportunidades e Desafios para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável traz uma profunda análise da região e propõe recomendações que serão enviadas aos candidatos à presidência da República.
Climate and land use: Forgive us our carbon debts
Sugar cane ethanol replaces fossil fuels, but changes in soil carbon could offset some of the benefit. Now, a study shows minor loss of soil carbon when pastures and croplands are converted to cane, but larger losses when converting native savannahs. Leia o artigo...
Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes
Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various social and environmental impacts. Here we compare six published case studies of rapid...
Forest Understory Fuel Loads, Paragominas, Para, Brazil: 2001
This data set contains estimates of understory fuel loads (forest litter) at six locations near Paragominas in Northeastern Amazonia. Samples were collected from three different forest conditions: primary forest, logged forest, and burned forest. Volumes and...
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
The recent 70% decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon suggests that it is possible to manage the advance of a vast agricultural frontier. Enforcement of laws, interventions in soy and beef supply chains, restrictions on access to credit, and expansion of...