Implicações para o setor privado sobre os efeitos do desmatamento de florestas tropicais para além do carbono

The document highlights that tropical deforestation contributes 50% more to global warming than carbon emissions alone due to biophysical processes like albedo, evapotranspiration, surface roughness, and aerosols. These non-carbon effects cause local temperature spikes and regional rainfall disruptions, leading to direct productivity losses in commodities such as soy and impacting worker safety through heat stress. It calls on companies and financial institutions to move beyond reputational risk management and address these material operational risks through jurisdictional cooperation, improved spatial research, and stricter portfolio alignment.

• Tropical deforestation increases global warming by 50% more than carbon accounting alone suggests, as forests influence climate through four non-carbon biophysical processes: albedo, evapotranspiration, surface roughness, and aerosols.
• Deforestation causes significant local temperature increases that exceed global greenhouse gas warming; while the greenhouse effect may cause a 1 °C average increase, local communities may experience peaks above 7.6 °C after losing forest cooling.
• The loss of tropical forests disrupts regional rainfall patterns across national borders, such as the Brazilian Amazon's influence on precipitation in Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina, threatening water and food security.
• Non-carbon climate effects lead to direct agricultural losses; in Brazil, extreme temperatures from nearby deforestation caused a 12% drop in soy productivity, resulting in an annual loss of US$ 99 per hectare.
• Deforestation-induced heat stress reduces labor productivity and increases health risks for outdoor workers; in Pará, the daily window for safe outdoor work in summer decreased by more than one hour.
• Despite corporate commitments, significant financial exposure remains, with investors holding US$ 40 billion in bonds and shares linked to forest-risk commodities, which is more than three times the value of the Global Forest Finance Pledge from COP26.

APA

Gerow, A., & Seymour, F. (n.d.). Implicações para o setor privado sobre os efeitos do desmatamento de florestas tropicais para além do carbono. World Resources Institute. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2023-09/implicacoes-para-o-setor-privado.pdf

Chicago

Gerow, Alice, and Frances Seymour. Implicações para o setor privado sobre os efeitos do desmatamento de florestas tropicais para além do carbono. World Resources Institute, n.d. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2023-09/implicacoes-para-o-setor-privado.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gerowndimplicaes, author = {Gerow, Alice and Seymour, Frances}, title = {{Implicações para o setor privado sobre os efeitos do desmatamento de florestas tropicais para além do carbono}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2023-09/implicacoes-para-o-setor-privado.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }