Footprints – Identifying Mammals
Content extracted from the flyer Identificando mamíferos da Floresta de transição Amazônia-Cerrado [How to identify mammals from the Amazon-Cerrado Transition Forest]
GCF – Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
The GCF is a subnational task force established by a memorandum of understanding signed in 2008 that provides the basis for cooperation on several issues related to climate policy, financing, technology exchange and research.
Footprints – Identifying Mammals
Content extracted from the flyer Identificando mamíferos da Floresta de transição Amazônia-Cerrado [How to identify mammals from the Amazon-Cerrado Transition Forest]
What is the carbon market? How does it work?
This mechanism encourages sustainable development and reduction of emissions by giving industrialized countries flexibility to meet their reduction targets.
Family farming
In Brazil, 4,367,902 family establishments, or 84.4% of all rural establishments, occupy 24.3% of the total area of rural establishments, or 80.25 million hectares, distributed in grasslands (45%), forests (28%) and crops (22%).
Recovering degraded areas
Several models were developed to restore degraded areas, including driving natural regeneration, planting seeds and planting of seedlings.