ONDE ESTAMOS NA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL? RADIOGRAFIA DO CAR E DO PRA NOS ESTADOS BRASILEIROS

The report provides a comprehensive 'radiography' of how Brazilian states are implementing the Forest Code. It identifies a significant gap between the high rates of CAR registration and the slow progress of CAR validation and PRA implementation. While some states in the North and Center-West regions are advanced, the Northeast region lags behind. The document highlights systemic barriers, including a lack of technical resources, poor quality of self-declared data, and a heavy dependence on the federal government's SICAR system. It also examines state-specific rules for restoring Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) and Legal Reserves (RL), noting wide variations in restoration deadlines and methodologies.

• While CAR registration is advanced across all states, the subsequent analysis and validation phase faces severe bottlenecks due to the high volume and low quality of registrations, as well as a shortage of technical and human resources.
• There is a stark regional disparity in implementation: the North and Center-West regions are the most advanced, with signed commitment terms and active regularization, while the Northeast is the most delayed, with six states lacking any regulation.
• Effective operationalization of the PRA is rare; only five states have fully implemented the program with operational systems, signed commitment terms, and active monitoring of APP and Legal Reserve projects.
• States exhibit significant variation in the deadlines set for restoring consolidated APPs, ranging from a short five-year window in Rondônia to twenty years in states like Bahia, Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
• The most widely implemented method for Legal Reserve compensation is the donation of land within a public Conservation Unit (UC) that is pending land regularization, a practice regulated in 12 states.
• The application of Article 68 of the Forest Code, which exempts owners from restoring Legal Reserves if they followed the laws in effect at the time of clearing, is complex and slows regularization due to the need for historical cartographic data.
• Many states are heavily dependent on the federal government's SICAR platform and its PRA Module; any federal delays or system outages directly hinder state-level implementation.
• The introduction of a potential 'Federal PRA' (via Law No. 13.887/2019) for states that fail to implement their own by December 31, 2020, creates legal uncertainty and may conflict with the federative principle.

APA

Chiavari, J., & Lopes, C. L. (2019). ONDE ESTAMOS NA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL? RADIOGRAFIA DO CAR E DO PRA NOS ESTADOS BRASILEIROS. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Onde-estamos-na-implementacao-do-Codigo-Florestal.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, and Cristina Leme Lopes. ONDE ESTAMOS NA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL? RADIOGRAFIA DO CAR E DO PRA NOS ESTADOS BRASILEIROS. Climate Policy Initiative, 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Onde-estamos-na-implementacao-do-Codigo-Florestal.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2019onde, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Lopes, Cristina Leme}, title = {{ONDE ESTAMOS NA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL? RADIOGRAFIA DO CAR E DO PRA NOS ESTADOS BRASILEIROS}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2019}, month = dec, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Onde-estamos-na-implementacao-do-Codigo-Florestal.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }