Sustainably managing the Amazon region is essential to mitigating global climate change and to preserving the biological and cultural diversity of the region. After promising reductions in degradation in the 2010s, a return to historically high levels of land conversion and deforestation during the past 5 years has severely undermined these goals. This land conversion — primarily the result of logging, mining and ranching — has generated social, economic and environmental burdens across scales1. Encouragingly, signs of recovery towards Amazon protection are appearing under Brazil’s current federal administration. But amid the drop in deforestation, a new threat is on the rise: uncontrolled fires.
A Amazônia no caminho da transição agrícola mundial
A Amazônia no caminho da transição agrícola mundial
Neste documento, o Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), em colaboração com o Woods Hole Research Center, apresentam um breve resumo do contexto global do desmatamento na Amazônia e identificam as oportunidades atuais para se ordenar o uso de recursos naturais na região através do mercado global.