Restauração em Escala no Brasil

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) analyzes the regulatory and institutional framework for large-scale forest and vegetation restoration in Brazil. It argues that current public policies are designed for individual rural properties rather than landscape-scale initiatives and identifies three essential factors—diversifying restoration typologies, bridging public and private land barriers, and integrating mandatory and voluntary restoration—to enable the scaling of restoration, particularly driven by carbon markets.

• Current Brazilian public policies for restoration are designed for the scale of individual rural properties rather than the landscape scale, creating obstacles for projects that span multiple properties, jurisdictions, or stakeholders.
• To achieve economic and socio-environmental viability at scale, projects should combine multiple restoration typologies, ranging from natural regeneration and active planting of native species to native silviculture and Agroforestry Systems (SAFs).
• Large-scale restoration must overcome the divide between public and private lands. In the Amazon, this is particularly challenging as public lands account for approximately 63% of the region, while private areas are only 17%, often complicated by undefined property rights and land conflicts.
• Restoration in Brazil is categorized as mandatory in three scenarios: repairing environmental damage (illegal deforestation), failing to comply with conservation obligations (such as Permanent Preservation Areas or Legal Reserves), or fulfilling compensation obligations (legal deforestation).
• Voluntary restoration occurs in areas of alternative land use where there is no legal obligation to conserve. While the Forest Code generally exempts planting from prior authorization, contradictions exist with environmental licensing regulations (such as Conama Resolution 237/1997) that may treat silviculture as a potentially polluting activity.
• There is significant economic potential for restoration in Brazil, with an estimated 35 million hectares in severe degradation. In the Amazon, carbon prices above US$ 20 per ton of CO2 could potentially generate US$ 320 billion in revenue over 30 years through natural regeneration.

APA

Lopes, C. L., & Chiavari, J. (2024). Restauração em Escala no Brasil. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Restauracao-em-Escala-no-Brasil.pdf

Chicago

Lopes, Cristina Leme, and Joana Chiavari. Restauração em Escala no Brasil. Climate Policy Initiative, 2024. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Restauracao-em-Escala-no-Brasil.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{lopes2024restaurao, author = {Lopes, Cristina Leme and Chiavari, Joana}, title = {{Restauração em Escala no Brasil}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Restauracao-em-Escala-no-Brasil.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }