The Observatório do Código Florestal (OCF) Forest Code Observatory, in English, was created in May of 2013 to advance social accountability over the implementation of Law # 12,651/2012 and to ensure the environmental, social and economic integrity of forests on private property. The Observatório is a network made up of 21 independent organizations, which came together with the goal of fostering the effective implementation of the Forest Code.
Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. Feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effect of future deforestation or assume that deforestation will...