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1. Selo Verde e CAR 2.0 - Traceability and environmental compliance of
production chains - MG

2. NORMATIVE BASIS (LAWS)
• Federal Law nº 12.651/2021 – Forest Code (National)
• Federal Decrees nº 7.830/12 e 8.235/14 – General Guidelines - PRA
• State Law nº 20.922/2013 – Forest Code (State)
• State Decree nº 48.127/2021 – Regulates PRA in MG
• Joint Resolution Semad/IEF nº 3.132/2022 – Procedures - Validation CAR and RL
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3. The Challenge
• More than 1 million rural properties registered in CAR (Rural Environmental Registry) –
Must be validated
• Brazil - less than 1% is validated
• Requirements from the national and international markets for proof of environmental
compliance
• Rules from the EU, UK, US, China
• High costs of the private certification processes for the small and medium farmers
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Transparency - Mechanisms already
implemented in MG
• Certification Program of Agricultural and Angroindustrial Products of the
Minas Gerais State – Certifica Minas - State law nº 22.926, from
12/01/2018
• Coal chain control – “MG Florestas” System
• Databases Integration – IDE-Sisema (Spacial Data Infrastructure – State
System of Environment and Water Resources - SISEMA)

5. Environmental Compliance
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• Analysis of CAR data (CAR 2.0, Análise dinamizada e Análise
Individualizada)
• Implementation of the Program of Environmental Regularization – PRA –
“PRA Produzir Sustentável” (To Produce Sustainably)
• Program with positive actions, aiming the environmental regularization of
rural properties through support to the farmers
• Database integration

6. Selo Verde Platform
• Plataform of transparency and traceability to demonstrate production free of ilegal
deforestations of the supply chains in state of Minas Gerais, based on national and state
legislation (forest codes)
• Developt by LAGESA/UFMG within the scope of the IEF – LAGESA/UFMG agreement, in
cooperation with the state of Para - PA
• Information from public databases from MG
• Only verified and definitive information
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7. Selo Verde Platform
• CAR 2.0 – Tool within the platform that runs the automatic analyses of CAR
• Status: Plataform developted and launched in beta version in june/2023, with coffee
production data
• Subsequently released a version with forestry chain in august/2023
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SeloVerde
Transparency of the
chains and
Certificacion
CAR 2.0
Validation of CAR and
Environmental
Regularization

9. Selo Verde and CAR 2.0 initiative
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- Query by property (farm ID)
- Geolocation and property boundaries
- Personal and commercial data protection
- Maps and high-resolution satellite images
- Official deforestation data
- Transparency and traceability for all suppliers in Minas
Gerais
Free access to data on environmental compliance covering all rural
properties in Minas Gerais state (~1 million properties)

11. Selo Verde: transparency platform
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12. Selo Verde and CAR 2.0 architecture
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13. Automatic Analyses of Forest Code Compliance
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14. Selo Verde: transparency platform
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Diagnosis of Rural Property (CAR)
Environmental
suitability with
surplus Legal
reserve - RL
Environmental
suitability
Environmental
deficit
Post 2008
deforestation
Post 2008
deforestation in
APP or with RL
below the
minimum
requirement

15. Forest Code Compliance – Certifica Minas
Café Program
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Query by coffee producer

17. Rural Properties – Certifica Minas Café
Program
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Prop. free from deforest. post-2008 541 100%
Prop. with surplus Legal Reserve - RL 199 37%
Prop. With RL deficit (PRA) 64 12%
Propriedades - Certifica Minas Café
Limite municipios de Minas Gerais
100 % of properties achieve environmental compliance (Lei 12.651/2012)

18. Coffee Plantations
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Total polygons 382.250
Total area of coffee (ha) 1.131.727,55 ha

19. Coffee area by biomes
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Biome Coffee growing area %
Cerrado
(Savana)
377494,84 33
Atlantic forest 752637,22 67
Caatinga
(Semiarid)
151,15 0

20. Automatic analyses result – Balance of forest code
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99% of the properties with no evidence of post-2008 deforestation
Nº total rural properties IRU 115.028 %
Nº of properties with surplus Legal Reserve 39.531 34,4
Nº of properties with Legal Reserve deficit * 1.689 1,5
Nº of prop. with authorized post-2008 deforestation** 103 - 550 0,1 - 0,5
Nº prop. with post-2008 deforestation with no identified authorization 38-70 0,03 - 0,06
Proprieties Characteristics (IRU) Area (thousand ha) %
Total Area 3.914
Native vegetation 1.031 26,4
Surplus RL 307 7,8
RL Deficit 35,3 0,9
APP Deficit 88,9 2,3
Post-2008 deforestation 3,7 0,1
* RL declared outside the original properties were not considered
** Deforestation data from IEF and other sources (Prodes, SOS Mata Atlântica e Mapbiomas)

21. Forest Code Compliance – Forestry Areas
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22. Forestry Areas
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Number of polygons 99.154
Total forestry area (ha) 1,17 Million ha
Mapbiomas (2021): 1,8 Mha
Sector estimate (IBÁ): 2,3 Mha

23. Forestry Areas by biomes
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Biome Forestry Area %
Cerrado
(Savanna)
897.206,91 76,5%
Atlantic forest 274.804,28 23,4%
Caatinga
(semi-arid)
1.183,31 0,1%

24. Automatic analyses result – Balance of forest code
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Nº total rural properties IRU 9.486 %
Nº of properties with surplus Legal Reserve 5.872 61,9
Nº of properties with Legal Reserve deficit * 369 3,9
Nº of prop. with significant post-2008 deforestation** 714 - 1823 7,5 – 19,2
Properties Characteristics (IRU) Área (thousand ha) %
Total Area 3.256
Native vegetation 1.439 44,2
Surplus RL* 658 20,2
RL Deficit 16,0 0,5
APP Deficit 37,0 1,1
Post-2008 deforestation 22,2 0,7
* RL declared outside the original properties were not considered
** Deforestation official data from IEF (> 1ha) or Prodes/INPE (> 6,25 ha)

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Policy brief (coffee):
https://csr.ufmg.br/csr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/policy_conformidade-do-parque-cafeeiro_en
glish_2.pdf
Platform SeloVerde-MG: https://seloverde.meioambiente.mg.gov.br/
Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto/UFMG: http://csr.ufmg.br/csr/
State Forest Institute of MG (IEF/MG): https://ief. mg.gov.br/
IDE- SISEMA: https://idesisema.meioambiente.mg.gov.br/
More information

28. THANK YOU
Thiago Cavanelas Gelape – Manager of Environmental Recovery and
Ecossystem Conservation Planning – State Forest Institute of Minas Gerais
(IEF/MG)
thiago.gelape@meioambiente.mg.gov.br