Brazil’s Forest Code of 2012 mandates the maintenance of 80% legal reserve of forested land in every private property in the Amazon biome. Property owners who deforested more than legally permitted before 2008 have the option of buying credits from owners who have surplus native vegetation in the same biome to satisfy their legal reserve defi cit. The use of Environmental Reserve Quotas (“CRA”) could potentially reduce legal deforestation of surplus forested land. Our research objective was to model supply and demand for CRA, by accounting for priority areas defi ned in terms of deforestation risk, carbon stock, and biodiversity importance in the Amazon biome in Mato Grosso.
Resumo dos resultados da COP-17
Documento faz uma compilação dos principais resultados da 17ª Conferência das Partes (COP-17) da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudança do Clima, ocorrida entre 09 e 18 de dezembro de 2011, em Durban, África do Sul: o novo Protocolo de Kyoto, Salvaguardas de REDD+, Níveis de Referência, Fundo Verde para o Clima e LULUCF.