The Brazilian Forest Service was created in 2006 to promote sustainable forest use. It manages over 200 million hectares of public forests and works on projects like forest concessions and community forest management. The Amazon Fund supports Brazil's goal to reduce deforestation 40% by 2020 through donations based on verified emissions reductions. It is governed by committees that select projects promoting reduced deforestation, biodiversity, and sustainable local development. Key challenges include finding good projects and producing short-term results.

2. Brazilian Forest Service
• Created in 2006 by the Public Forests Law (Lei
11.284 de 2006).
• The Brazilian Forest Service is fundamentally
an institution for promoting sustainable use of
forests.
• It is in process to become an autonomous
public institution supervised by the Ministry o
the Environment.

3. Brazilian Forest Service
• Responsible for management of public forests.
• Brazil’s public forests:
210.870.585 hectares of registered public
forests.
198.5 million hectares are federal public
forests.
12.4 million hectares are state public
forests.

4. Brazilian Forest Service
• Responsible for management of public forests.
• Main project areas:
Forest concessions (public-private
partnerships in forest activity).
Communitarian forest management.
Forest information.
Funding, R & D and development of
capabilities for sustainable use of forests.

5. Amazon Fund Background
• PPCDAM.
• PAS
• ARPA.
• ZEE
• Trustworthy monitoring system (PRODES).
• Information.
• Institutional commitment to reduce
deforestation (national, sub-national, society).

6. Deforestation in the Amazon Region

7. The Amazon Fund will provide support to achieve the
goals of the National Plan on Climate Change, in special
the goal 4:
Reduction of deforestation rate by 40% in the period
2006-2010, in comparison with the average
deforestation rate of the period 1996-2005, and 30%
reduction in the next two following quadrennial
periods.
Fund-raising for the Amazon Fund is based on the
effective reduction of CO emissions due to deforestation
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in the Brazilian Amazon. Only when the deforestation
rate declines will donations be accepted.

8. PRINCIPLES
• Forests are assets which hold economic,
social, and environmental value.
• Conserving the forests achieve local and
global goals of sustainable development.
• The best strategy to conserve the forests is to
assume its total value when formulating
policies.
• Local population should be benefited by
initiatives to conserve the forests.

9. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
• To demonstrate that international
negotiations on REDD initiatives can be
effectively put into place.
• REDD initiatives will attend the principles of
effectiveness, efficiency and equity when they
privilege scale, cost-effectiveness and equity.
• The Amazon Fund is a demonstrative initiative
to point to negotiations of deforestation
reduction in “wholesale” scale.

10. OBJECTIVES
• To reduce Amazon deforestation rates.
• To promote biodiversity conservation.
• To promote sustainable local development in
the Amazon region and address the economic
and social cost of reducing deforestation.
• To promote institutional change capable of
ensuring permanent conservation policies.

11. GOVERNANCE
• The Amazon Fund is a Brazilian initiative which
is led by the government but is not
governmental: The Amazon Fund accrues to
the Brazilian society.

12. Guidelines Steering Committee
Technical
certification of Technical Committee
emissions’
reduction
Transparency
and Financial and Material Third-
accountability Part Auditing
Operations BNDES

13. The Steering Committee
• Composed by representatives from the federal
government, the states of the Legal Amazon
and from the civil society.
• The Steering Committee is responsible for
ensuring that projects will be in line with the
fund’s objectives and with the guidelines of
the main governmental plans for promoting
sustainable development and reducing
deforestation.

14. The Technical Committee
• The Technical Committee is composed of six
notables in science and technology, appointed
by the Ministry of the Environment, based on
a list submitted by the Brazilian Climate
Change Forum.

15. Challenges
• To find good projects to support.
• To build an efficient operational structure.
• To involve local communities and indigenous
population.
• To coordinate supported projects with
national and sub-national policies.

16. Challenges
• To produce visible, quantifiable results in short
term.
• To prove that funds for reducing deforestation
do not need to attached to complex baselines
and calculations.