Proarco

The Amazon Emergency Fire Prevention and Control Project (Programa de Prevenção e Controle de Queimadas e Incêndios Florestais na Amazônica Legal, PROARCO), of the Brazilian government.

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Secondary Forests

Secondary Forests

What are they? Secondary forests, or recovering forests, are those that were previously deforested and have grown back. The area of secondary forests in the Amazon is estimated to be 850 million hectares. This figure corresponds to areas deforested between 1988 and...

PNMC

PNMC

National Plan on Climate Change (Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, PNMC, in Portuguese) is the Brazilian official voluntary commitment with the UNFCCC to achieve greenhouse gases cut between 36.1% and 38.9% of the 2020 projected emissions. It has established...

LULUCF

LULUCF

It means "land use, land-use change and forestry". The LULUCF activities eligible under the clean development mechanism are those that promote the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, i.e., afforestation and...