Onde Estamos e Para Onde Vamos na Implementação do Código Florestal

The policy brief provides a detailed 'radiography' of the implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code, focusing on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA). It identifies a significant gap between the initial registration of properties and the final stage of environmental regularization, noting that while registration is consolidated, the analysis of data remains a primary bottleneck. The authors highlight extreme heterogeneity among states, with a few leaders like Mato Grosso and Pará, and others remaining stagnant. The document outlines systemic challenges across individual, institutional, technical-economic, and legal dimensions and recommends a national implementation plan, strengthening of the SICAR system, and better integration with agricultural credit and anti-deforestation policies.

• Implementation of the Forest Code is highly uneven across Brazil; while Acre, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, and Rondônia have reached all implementation stages, states like Pernambuco, Piauí, and Roraima remain stagnant, having only implemented CAR registration.
• The analysis of declared CAR data is the primary bottleneck for the law's implementation, with only approximately 12% of registries nationwide having undergone either team-based or dynamic analysis as of 2022.
• Dynamic analysis tools show high potential for scale, as demonstrated by São Paulo, which processed 89% of its registry base in less than a year, though only São Paulo and Amapá have effectively implemented the tool.
• The final stage of environmental regularization via the PRA is far from being achieved; only Acre, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Pará have the program fully operational with functioning IT systems and signed commitment terms.
• The National Rural Environmental Registry System (SICAR) suffers from severe fragility due to a lack of legal regulation and technical instability following a migration to a cloud infrastructure managed by the Ministry of Agriculture's IT Department (DTI/Mapa) in April 2022.
• Illegal use of the CAR for land grabbing has led to thousands of registries overlapping federal public lands, such as Indigenous Territories (TIs) and Conservation Units (UCs), which requires urgent cancellation or suspension.
• Financial incentives are being integrated to encourage compliance, such as CMN Resolution No. 5.021/2022, which increases credit limits by 10% for producers whose CAR has been analyzed and is in conformity or under regularization.

APA

Chiavari, J., & Lopes, C. L. (2022). Onde Estamos e Para Onde Vamos na Implementação do Código Florestal. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agenda-Propositiva-Onde-Estamos.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, and Cristina Leme Lopes. Onde Estamos e Para Onde Vamos na Implementação do Código Florestal. Climate Policy Initiative, 2022. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agenda-Propositiva-Onde-Estamos.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2022onde, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Lopes, Cristina Leme}, title = {{Onde Estamos e Para Onde Vamos na Implementação do Código Florestal}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2022}, month = dec, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agenda-Propositiva-Onde-Estamos.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }