Recuperação Verde na Amazônia

The document evaluates how fiscal, budgetary, monetary, and trade policies in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic integrated or ignored natural capital in the Legal Amazon. It finds that the vast majority of economic stimulus measures had a negative impact on natural capital, with 87.2% categorized as 'high negative'. While some positive measures exist in bioeconomy and low-carbon agriculture, the report argues that nature was not central to economic decision-making and recommends a shift toward a 'green recovery' that values standing forests.

• The vast majority of economic stimulus measures analyzed had a negative impact on natural capital, with 87.2% rated as 'high negative', 9.7% as 'low negative', 2.9% as 'high positive', and 0.1% as 'low positive'.
• Despite Brazil spending over R$ 520 billion to combat pandemic effects, these measures did not centrally or marginally consider natural capital in their scope.
• Positive impacts on natural capital were identified in family farming and bioeconomy, including R$ 4.9 billion (US$ 942.7 million) from the Plano Safra for Pronaf and the ABC Program in the nine states of the Legal Amazon between 2020 and 2021, and R$ 2.2 million (US$ 419 thousand) for Sustainable Bioeconomy Development in Amazonas state.
• Negative impacts were driven by regulatory flexibility in mining and agribusiness, including four regulatory acts easing mining activities and an estimated R$ 462 million (US$ 126 million) impact on the Amazon from the Central Bank's flexibility regarding Agribusiness Credit Notes (LCA).
• The report concludes that extra-fiscal measures implemented before and during the pandemic failed to use natural capital as a guiding principle, and many positive budget lines saw decreased funding in 2021 compared to 2020.

APA

Green Economy Coalition (n.d.). Recuperação Verde na Amazônia. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/GEC-Reports/GR-Country-reports/GR-Brazil-hub-recuperacao-verde-factsheet.pdf

Chicago

Green Economy Coalition. Recuperação Verde na Amazônia. n.d. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/GEC-Reports/GR-Country-reports/GR-Brazil-hub-recuperacao-verde-factsheet.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greeneconomycoalitionndrecuperao, author = {{Green Economy Coalition}}, title = {{Recuperação Verde na Amazônia}}, institution = {Green Economy Coalition}, url = {https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/GEC-Reports/GR-Country-reports/GR-Brazil-hub-recuperacao-verde-factsheet.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }