Ao mirar no desmatamento, Brasil acerta na regeneração

The document argues that environmental monitoring and enforcement focused on primary deforestation created a positive externality by deterring illegal activities more broadly, leading to increased natural regeneration in the Amazon. It highlights a critical gap in current monitoring systems (PRODES and DETER), which cannot detect secondary vegetation loss, and recommends that Brazil integrate tropical regeneration into its public policy agenda to enhance climate goals and ecosystem services.

• Between 2004 and 2014, the area of tropical secondary vegetation in the Amazon increased by over 70%, growing from less than 10 million hectares to approximately 17 million hectares, while the primary deforestation rate fell by 80%.
• Environmental monitoring and enforcement targeting primary deforestation acted as a deterrent, causing illegal operators to abandon regions due to a higher risk of punishment, which subsequently allowed natural regeneration to occur.
• The positive impact of enforcement on regeneration was more pronounced in areas that still had remnants of primary vegetation, indicating that local conditions influence an ecosystem's natural recovery capacity.
• Brazil's primary forest monitoring systems, PRODES and DETER, have a 'blind spot' regarding secondary vegetation; they are designed to detect loss only outside the 'deforestation mask' (the historical record of deforested areas), making changes in secondary vegetation invisible to authorities.
• Global restoration of 350 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands could sequester 1.7 GtCO2 annually and generate approximately 170 billion dollars in net benefits from water resource protection, agricultural productivity, and forest products.

APA

Assunção, J., Rodrigues, H., & Gandour, C. (2020). Ao mirar no desmatamento, Brasil acerta na regeneração. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PB-Ao-mirar-no-desmatamento-Brasil-acerta-na-regeneração-1.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, Helena Rodrigues, and Clarissa Gandour. Ao mirar no desmatamento, Brasil acerta na regeneração. Climate Policy Initiative, 2020. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PB-Ao-mirar-no-desmatamento-Brasil-acerta-na-regeneração-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2020mirar, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Rodrigues, Helena and Gandour, Clarissa}, title = {{Ao mirar no desmatamento, Brasil acerta na regeneração}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2020}, month = apr, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PB-Ao-mirar-no-desmatamento-Brasil-acerta-na-regeneração-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }