Governança das Concessões Florestais na Amazônia

The report examines the implementation of the Public Forest Management Law (LGFP) in the Amazon, highlighting that federal and state concessions have fallen short of 2006 targets. Focusing on Pará, the study identifies governance failures—including frequent annulment of bidding processes, non-concession of areas, and contract terminations—driven by poor technical capacity and restrictive legal limits on the size and number of areas a single company can manage. It recommends enhancing staff training and removing legal restrictions on concession scale to attract more qualified operators.

• Federal and state forest concessions in the Amazon have significantly underperformed relative to initial goals. While the federal government estimated 4 million hectares of conceded forests by 2010, actual federal concessions are limited to approximately 1.3 million hectares. State concessions are even slower, with only 551 thousand hectares under exploration, primarily in Pará and Amapá.
• In Pará, the governance of forest concessions is characterized by a high rate of failure in the bidding and maintenance phases. Half of the state's bidding processes were annulled, and the long-term success rate for granting a Management Forest Unit (UMF) is only 53% when considering current active contracts against vacant areas or terminated contracts.
• The annulment of bidding processes in Pará is primarily caused by basic errors in the drafting of public notices (editais). These include failing to require legally mandatory documents, requiring excessive documentation, lacking criteria to evaluate the feasibility of proposals, and omitting critical information about existing third-party exploration or timber species in the area.
• Several factors contribute to the failure to grant certain forest areas in Pará, including candidates failing to meet minimum requirements, procedural delays that exceed proposal validity, and restrictive legal limits. Specifically, the LGFP limits a company to a maximum of two concessions per bidding process and prohibits any company from managing more than 10% of available state public forests.
• Contract terminations in Pará have occurred due to total non-compliance by concessionaires regarding qualification maintenance, forest management standards, environmental protections, and labor laws. For example, contracts for UMFs IV, V, and VIII in Flota Paru were unilaterally terminated by Ideflor-Bio in 2017.
• The report recommends two primary policy improvements: investing in the training of Ideflor-Bio staff to improve the accuracy of sample inventories and demographic surveys, and removing legal restrictions on the number and total area of concessions a single company can hold to allow qualified operators to achieve scale.

APA

Cozendey, G., & Chiavari, J. (2023). Governança das Concessões Florestais na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Governanca-das-Concessoes-Florestais-na-Amazonia.pdf

Chicago

Cozendey, Gabriel, and Joana Chiavari. Governança das Concessões Florestais na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative, 2023. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Governanca-das-Concessoes-Florestais-na-Amazonia.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cozendey2023governana, author = {Cozendey, Gabriel and Chiavari, Joana}, title = {{Governança das Concessões Florestais na Amazônia}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Governanca-das-Concessoes-Florestais-na-Amazonia.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }