The goal is to continuously reduce the deforestation of the forest until 2030, with the creation of traceability systems for agricultural and mining products
The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) intends to immediately embargo half of the logged areas in federal conservation units. In addition, an “Amazon Seal” will be created for the certification and traceability of products in the region. The measures are part of the new Action Plan to Prevent and Control Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), for continued reduction of destruction through 2030.
The identification of the areas under embargo will take place through the Prodes system of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), the official body for monitoring deforestation via satellite in Brazil. The embargo is a form of administrative sanction which suspends the activities carried out on the property concerned. In 2022, nearly 50% of deforestation (5,738 km²) occurred on public reserves, such as conservation units or indigenous lands. The plan wants to create 3 million hectares of conservation units by 2027.
Initially developed in 2004, during the previous Minister’s visit Marina Silva, the plan will be the responsibility of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. To be effective, the document provides for a strengthening of local inspection, with four more federal police stations in the region, the creation of investigative offices in the nine Amazon states, the hiring of 1,600 analysts, the purchase or leasing of 6 aircraft and the strengthening of crime technology monitoring.
Experts listened to by Stadium say the plan is feasible. But they point out that if laws are passed that encourage devastation, it will make implementation more difficult. “This plan does not depend on legislative changes, rather, it was created to work with existing laws, as we are continuing the plan created in 2004,” says Suely Araujo, a public policy specialist at the Climate Observatory and chair of the Ibama under the direction of Michel Temer (MDB).
“And between 2004 and 2012, Brazil reduced deforestation by 83%, so we know it’s efficient,” says Suely. “The new version is updated for our 2023 reality, which is more complex than the 2003 one. Now, depending on what Congress passes, it could jeopardize the effectiveness of the plan and its enforcement.”
“The plan is good, but why it works depends on several things,” says Márcio Astrini, also from the Climate Observatory. “We have to get more money (what’s in the Amazon Fund is not enough)to be able to implement it and to keep the cattle of the National Congress”.
Discover some highlights of the Action Plan to prevent and control deforestation in the legal Amazon
Axis I – Sustainable productive activities
– Develop the National Plan for the Bioeconomy
– Create the “Amazon Seal” for the certification of bioeconomy products
– Create the “Green Seal” for product life cycle analysis
– Create the “Amazon Brand” to certify green production and increase sales of products originating from the Amazon.
– Support and strengthen research institutes in the Amazon
– Improve and make available 20 floating and land laboratories
– Provide 1,500 scholarships for education, training and employee retention incentives
– Establish three pilot projects to promote ecotourism
– Increase support for sustainable productive inclusion projects for indigenous peoples by 50%.
Axis II – Environmental monitoring and control
– Embargo of 50% of illegally logged area in Conservation Units
– Inspect 30% of the illegally logged area identified by Prodes last year
– Expand the number of strategic bases, federal police stations, and federal police and military aircraft in the Amazon
– Hiring 1,600 environmental analysts through a public tender to work in the fight against deforestation
– Produce daily deforestation alerts
– Create an integrated inter-agency body to combat deforestation and forest degradation
– Establish state intelligence centers in the Legal Amazon to help prevent and control deforestation
– Create four new federal police stations
– Implement federal fire prevention and firefighting teams in the nine states of the legal Amazon
– Development of traceability systems for agricultural products
Axis III – Spatial and territorial planning
– Create 3 million hectares of conservation units
– Incorporate 100% of vacant land into the Union (public land still without destination)
– Regularization of the land tenure of 50,000 occupants of state property
– Georeferencing of 100,000 rural occupations on public land
– Promote and support the preparation of the National Title Plan of the Territories of Quilombola
– Resumption of the Bolsa Verde programme, which will give BRL 300 per quarter to families in traditional communities
– Make mandatory the carrying out of a Technical, Economic and Environmental Feasibility Study for large enterprises and infrastructure projects in the region
Axis IV – Regulatory and economic instruments
– Offer lower interest rates and other incentives for sustainable production
– Regulate the carbon market in Brazil
– Expand the Amazon Fund project portfolio
– Expand the introduction of forest-based products into the international market
– Create a methodology for assessing the monetary value of biodiversity in protected areas to encourage the issuance of certificates certified as products originating from native forest conservation activities
Source: Terra
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