Boletim “Tanguro em Pauta” – 2

Understory fires represent an accelerating threat to Amazonian tropical forests and can, during drought, affect larger areas than deforestation itself. These fires kill trees at rates varying from < 10 to c. 90% depending on fire intensity, forest disturbance...

The protection and socially and economically just development of the Amazon rainforest highly depends on responsible land governance and land tenure security. Going back in Brazilian history, land regularization has often led to deforestation, putting productive...

There is currently no financial mechanism that will pay for medium to long-term emissions reductions from REDD+ in the period between 2015 and 20201 (‘the interim period’), and do so at the scale needed to meet emissions reduction targets in tropical forest...