Demonstrativos financeiros – 2019

Os autores falam da importância da participação das populações indígenas e tradicionais para aplicação do REDD e utilizam, como exemplo, o projeto de mecanismo de desmatamento evitado da Transamazônica. O documento está disponível para consulta somente em inglês.

In early August 2016 the environmental license to build the largest of these dams, the São Luiz do Tapajos, was denied. In addition to future expansion of hydropower throughout the Amazon, 43 dams are still planned for the Tapajos River Basin.  

Fire is the least expensive and most broadly used method of clearing land and converting forest biomass into soil nutrients for pastures and crops in the tropics. Fire is also used to control weeds and to reinvigorate palatable pasture grasses. Even if beneficial for farmers over the short run, intensification of deforestation and burning impose long-term costs on individuals and society.