WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT?

This fact sheet from the Climate Policy Initiative argues that Brazil possesses the necessary policy tools to combat deforestation in the Amazon without compromising agricultural production, highlighting a historical decrease in deforestation rates alongside increasing agricultural GDP.

• Brazil has implemented several policy tools to combat deforestation, including the public annual listing of municipalities with intense deforestation for priority action, the conditioning of rural credit on environmental and land titling compliance, and the strategic allocation of Protected Areas.
• Satellite monitoring and law enforcement, specifically near-real-time detection, served as the primary driver for reducing deforestation rates and prevented the loss of 27,000 km2 of forest annually between 2006 and 2016.
• Data from PRODES/INPE and IBGE indicates that between 2004 and 2018, there was an 80% decrease in deforestation rates in the Amazon while agricultural production continued to increase.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (n.d.). WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT? https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Factsheet-Por-que-proteger-a-Amazonia-FINAL-EN.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT? n.d. https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Factsheet-Por-que-proteger-a-Amazonia-FINAL-EN.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiativendwhy, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{WHY IS PROTECTING THE AMAZON IMPORTANT?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, url = {https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Factsheet-Por-que-proteger-a-Amazonia-FINAL-EN.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }