Reflorestamento em Larga Escala: Terras Públicas na Amazônia São um Ponto de Partida

This executive summary by the Climate Policy Initiative argues that public lands in the Amazon, particularly protected territories and non-designated lands, provide a strategic opportunity for Brazil to implement large-scale reforestation through natural regeneration to meet climate goals without harming agricultural production.

• Natural forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon increased by over 70% between 2004 and 2014, growing from 10 million to 17 million hectares. By the mid-2010s, regeneration covered nearly 25% of the area that had been historically deforested in the region.
• Protected territories in the Amazon are identified as ideal starting points for reforestation due to established governance, monitoring, and proximity to primary forests. As of 2014, of the five million hectares of accumulated deforestation within protected territories, two million had regenerated, leaving three million hectares as primary targets for reforestation efforts.
• Non-designated public lands in the Amazon present a significant but more challenging opportunity for reforestation. Approximately 90 million hectares of public territory lack a designated use, and nearly 13 million hectares of deforested areas existed in these non-designated lands by 2014. Reforestation here is complicated by rural violence, land grabbing (grilagem), and property rights conflicts.
• Brazil has a voluntary commitment under the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than one-third below 2005 levels, which includes a goal to restore and reforest 12 million hectares of deforested or degraded land by 2030. While the 2017 National Plan for the Recovery of Native Vegetation (Planaveg) focuses on private areas, a complementary strategy for public lands is necessary.

APA

Gandour, C., & Assunção, J. (2019). Reflorestamento em Larga Escala: Terras Públicas na Amazônia São um Ponto de Partida. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/INPUT_Sumarios_Reflorestamento_Em_Larga_Escala_PT-1.pdf

Chicago

Gandour, Clarissa, and Juliano Assunção. Reflorestamento em Larga Escala: Terras Públicas na Amazônia São um Ponto de Partida. Climate Policy Initiative, 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/INPUT_Sumarios_Reflorestamento_Em_Larga_Escala_PT-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gandour2019reflorestamento, author = {Gandour, Clarissa and Assunção, Juliano}, title = {{Reflorestamento em Larga Escala: Terras Públicas na Amazônia São um Ponto de Partida}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2019}, month = jan, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/INPUT_Sumarios_Reflorestamento_Em_Larga_Escala_PT-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }