A Queda do Desmatamento na Amazônia Brasileira: Preços ou Políticas?

The analysis concludes that conservation policies introduced in 2004 and 2008 were effective in reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, preventing the loss of approximately 73,000 km² of forest between 2005 and 2009. While agricultural prices positively correlate with deforestation, the study finds that policy interventions mitigated the impact of rising prices, avoiding an estimated 2.7 billion tons of CO2 emissions valued at USD 13.2 billion.

• Conservation policies implemented in the second half of the 2000s were effective, preventing the deforestation of approximately 73,000 km² of the Amazon forest between 2005 and 2009, which represents nearly 60% of the forest cover that would have been lost without these policies.
• The avoided deforestation is estimated to have prevented the loss of 2.7 billion tons of stored CO2, with a calculated value of USD 13.2 billion.
• The 2004 policy inflection point was marked by the launch of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), which integrated federal, state, and municipal efforts and introduced real-time monitoring via the INPE's DETER system.
• The 2008 policy inflection point introduced more rigorous monitoring and sanctions for priority municipalities and conditioned rural credit for agricultural activities in the Amazon biome on proof of environmental compliance.
• The effect of cattle prices on deforestation is heterogeneous; while they can be associated with future deforestation increases as producers invest in larger herds, they can also lead to decreased pressure on forests if producers sell cattle to realize current high gains.

APA

Assunção, J., Gandour, C., & Rocha, R. (2015). A Queda do Desmatamento na Amazônia Brasileira: Preços ou Políticas? Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Queda-do-Desmatamento-na-Amazônia-Preços-ou-Políticas.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, Clarissa Gandour, and Rudi Rocha. A Queda do Desmatamento na Amazônia Brasileira: Preços ou Políticas? Climate Policy Initiative, 2015. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Queda-do-Desmatamento-na-Amazônia-Preços-ou-Políticas.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2015queda, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Gandour, Clarissa and Rocha, Rudi}, title = {{A Queda do Desmatamento na Amazônia Brasileira: Preços ou Políticas?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2015}, month = mar, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Queda-do-Desmatamento-na-Amazônia-Preços-ou-Políticas.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }