Apresentação intitulada "Decifrando o Código Florestal Brasileiro", proferida por Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajão, Professor e Pesquisador da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), no Seminário Internacional Oportunidades de Negócios para uma Economia Rural Sustentável:A Contribuição das Florestas e da Agricultura, realizado nos dias 14 e 15 de maio de 2019.
1. Cracking Brazil’s Forest Code: willingness
to comply and the environmental quota
(CRA) market
Prof. Raoni Rajão
* Rajão, R, Pacheco, R, Soares-filho, B et al (under preparation)
2. Team
Prof. Britaldo Soares Filho
Coordenador do Centro de
Sensoriamento Remoto
Prof. Raoni Rajão
Coordenador do Laboratório
de Gestão de Serviços Ambientais
3. FC regularization process
1) Join the rural environmental registry (CAR)
2) Validate CAR
3) Stop deforesting illegally
4) Implement PRA and pay forest debt
Enable the restoration of 12 Mha
Create demand for forest quota market (CRA) that avoids new
deforestation
4. Forest Debt
Forest debt: below legal
reserve (LR) requirements
(20-80%)
Forest surplus: beyond LR
requirements
Forests within LR of small
properties
Soares-Filho, B., Rajão, R., et al. (2014a). Cracking
Brazil’s Forest Code. Science, 344(6182), 363-364.
5. Forest Quotas (CRA)
CRA can be used to compensate the deficit from legal reserves (along the acquisition/donation of
private lands inside protected areas)
CRA can be issued based on the native vegetation at any stage of restoration:
In forest surplus of properties (exclude possessions)
Private properties inside protected areas
All forest area (including LR) of small properties, ie. 4 fiscal modules (80-400ha)
12. Combined government and market action
63%
100%
- 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000
livestock
agriculture
Demand for regularization (ha)
Government
and Market
% of debt paid:
Amazon (PA, MT): 70%
Cerrado (MT): 75%
Pantanal (MT): 62%
13. Potential CO2 removals
Removal
(Thousand tCO2/year)
Amazônia
(PA+ MT)
Cerrado
(MT)
Pantanal
(MT)
Total
Business as Usual 3,938 840 0.4 4,779
Government 11,949 1,062 5.7 13,017
Market 21,204 3,767 3.9 24,975
Government and
market
29,215 3,989 9.1 33,213
Restoration 100%
LR debt
41,627 5,330 14.6 46,972
* Removal factor from Brazil Third National Communication (TNC)
14. Conclusion
15
Azevedo, Rajão et al (2017) Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation,
PNAS, 114(29) 7653-7658
15. Conclusion
FC regularization is an important climate mitigation
action:
Removals of up to 46 million tCO2/year
Current trends are worrisome as under BAU:
11% of the LR debt (and CO2 removals) in Pará
and Mato Grosso will be restored/compensated
More law enforcement will be important but has
limits:
Restored/compensated only increases to 26%,
agriculture less intimidated
16. Conclusion
Market restrictions like Soy/Beef moratoria will
be key but needs improvement:
Even under market+government only 63% of cattle
ranchers are likely to seek to pay their LR debts
Beef moratoria only partially effective
Farmers diversity to avoid the Soy moratoria
Urgent to stop changes to the FC:
Farmers with forest surplus are the biggest losers
of a lax implementation