WHAT DOES THE SURGE IN AMAZON REGENERATION MEAN FOR BRAZIL?

This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) analyzes new data from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) showing a significant increase in tropical secondary vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2004 and 2014. The document highlights a gap in Brazil's satellite monitoring systems, which track primary deforestation but overlook regeneration, and outlines priorities for future policy analysis to integrate this phenomenon into carbon reduction goals and forest restoration requirements.

• Tropical secondary vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by more than 70% between 2004 and 2014, growing from 10 million hectares to over 17 million hectares. By 2014, this regeneration covered nearly 25% of the total area ever cleared in the region.
• Brazil's primary satellite monitoring systems, PRODES and DETER, are designed to detect the clearing of primary forests and do not capture tropical regrowth. Consequently, the loss of secondary vegetation is not included in official Amazon deforestation rates.
• The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, helped reduce annual deforestation rates from a peak of approximately 2.7 million hectares in 2004 to about 600,000 hectares by the early 2010s.
• There is a need to determine if existing secondary regeneration counts toward the Brazilian Forest Code's requirement to restore an estimated nine million hectares of illegally deforested land in the Amazon.
• Brazil's strategy to meet its United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) emissions reduction target includes a goal to restore or reforest 12 million hectares of forest nationwide by 2030.

APA

Assuncao, J., & Gandour, C. (2017). WHAT DOES THE SURGE IN AMAZON REGENERATION MEAN FOR BRAZIL? Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_What_does_the_surge_in_Amazon_regeneration_mean_for-Brazil_Final.pdf

Chicago

Assuncao, Juliano, and Clarissa Gandour. WHAT DOES THE SURGE IN AMAZON REGENERATION MEAN FOR BRAZIL? Climate Policy Initiative, 2017. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_What_does_the_surge_in_Amazon_regeneration_mean_for-Brazil_Final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuncao2017what, author = {Assuncao, Juliano and Gandour, Clarissa}, title = {{WHAT DOES THE SURGE IN AMAZON REGENERATION MEAN FOR BRAZIL?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2017}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_What_does_the_surge_in_Amazon_regeneration_mean_for-Brazil_Final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }