STRENGTHEN PRODUCING, SELLING AND GROWING. THESE PROTECTION POLICIES TO KEEP WE NEED TO MAINTAIN AND 80% WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT?

Public annual listing of municipalites with intense deforestation activity for priority action.

Reduced deforestation in listed municipalities without displacing it to neighboring ones.

Conditioning of rural credit upon compliance with environmental and land titling requirements.

Reduced deforestation in the Amazon biome, particularly where cattle ranching is the main economic activity.

Allocation of Protected Areas in strategic sites to

contain deforestation advances.

Shielded important areas from deforestation pressures.

WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT?

BRAZIL ALREADY HAS THE POLICY TOOLS TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON PROTECTING THE AMAZON BOOSTS BRAZIL'S POTENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

FIGHTING DEFORESTATION WORKS WITHOUT HARMING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

WE NEED TO MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN THESE

PROTECTION POLICIES TO KEEP PRODUCING, SELLING AND GROWING.

The Climate Policy Initiative/ Núcleo de Avaliação de Políticas Climáticas da PUC-Rio works to improve public energy and land use policies by generating evidence for decision makers to encourage low carbon economic growth.

climatepolicyinitiative.org/brazil • inputbrasil.org PROTECTED

TERRITORY

PRIORITY MUNICIPALITIES

RURAL CREDIT SATELLITE

MONITORING AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Ensures ecosystem services

and productivity Fights crime and protects

a national heritage Promotes access to international markets

Note: annual rate of deforestation (PRODES / INPE data) and municipal GDP of the agricultural sector in the Brazilian Amazon (IBGE data).

2012 2018 2004

decrease in deforestation rates

80% And production

is still increasing in the Amazon!

10 30 50 70

BRL Billion

10 20 30

Thousand km

2

Near-real-time detection of deforestation to target law enforcement efforts.

Prevented the loss of 27,000 km

²

of forest per year from 2006 to 2016 and was the main driver of the reduction in deforestation rates.

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