WHRC and IPAM are convinced that there is now a consensus in the international community that to avoid “dangerous interference” in the global climate system (the primary objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Article 2), tropical deforestation should be greatly reduced, as also recommended by two important reports prepared since Workshop I: the Stern Review4 and the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC5.

Joanneum Research, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental de Amazonia (IPAM), Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) welcome this opportunity to submit ideas to the II Workshop on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation to be held in...

Submission by Environmental Defense and the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM) to the XXVI Session of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), February 23...

O relatório oferece informações sobre o processo e os resultados obtidos na elaboração do Plano de Gestão Ambiental Rural do território da BR 163. A iniciativa decorre das ações desenvolvidas pelo projeto GESTAR BR 163 / PA, no estado do Pará, de acordo com a proposta assinada pela “Fundação Viver Produzir e Preservar -FVPP e seus co-participante com o projeto FAO/TCP/BRA/2903 e UTF/BRA/060/BRA através do Ministério do Meio Ambiente -MMA Secretaria De Políticas para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável – SDS, Departamento de Gestão Ambiental e Territorial.

The aim of this report is to explore the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.

Reduzir as emissões de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) pela queima de combustíveis fósseis (petróleo, carvão mineral e gás natural), especialmente nos países desenvolvidos, é fundamental para mantermos um clima global minimamente equilibrado no futuro. Contudo, esse...