For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...
Sprawling over nearly half of Brazil’s territory and encompassing nine of its states, the Amazon region is home to over 20 million Brazilians. Since 1985 – when the government began monitoring deforestation in the Amazon – more than half a million square kilometers...
Globally, many companies have committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, but they are struggling to find effective solutions to meet these goals. More and more emphasis is being placed on the jurisdictional approach as a potential means
to support corporate goals and drive sustainable development. The jurisdictional approach encourages companies to collaborate with local governments, communities and producers in their sourcing regions. Find in this document a strategy to achieve low-risk sourcing in Mato Grosso.
Implementing the jurisdictional approach for sustainable production in Mato Grosso and Pará. Developed by Environment Defense Fund (EDF), Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and Imazon. Supported by Norad – Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
Cerrado is a savanna-like biome which plays an important role in Brazil’s GHG emissions profile: because of its large area, and the increasing tendency in agricultural expansion associated with the low levels of protected areas, it is the second largest source of...
With the objective of reflecting on the causes that led to this deforestation and stimulating a reaction by the Brazilian Public Sector, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM), the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA) and the Institute of People and...
Article published in Carbon Markets, discussing different possibilities to link carbon markets to the fight against deforestation.