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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Brazil's market for trading forest certificates
Autor(es): Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho
Leonardo Santiago
Raoni Rajão
Frank Merry
Hermann Rodrigues
Juliana Davis
Letícia Lima
Marcia Macedo
Michael Coe
Arnaldo Carneiro
Resumen: Brazil faces an enormous challenge to implement its revised Forest Code. Despite big losses for the environment, the law introduces new mechanisms to facilitate compliance and foster payment for ecosystem services (PES). The most promising of these is a market for trading forest certificates (CRAs) that allows landowners to offset their restoration obligations by paying for maintaining native vegetation elsewhere. We analyzed the economic potential for the emerging CRA market in Brazil and its implications for PES programs. Results indicate a potential market for trading 4.2 Mha of CRAs with a gross value of US$ 9.2±2.4 billion, with main regional markets forming in the states of Mato Grosso and São Paulo. This would be the largest market for trading forests in the world. Overall, the potential supply of CRAs in Brazilian states exceeds demand, creating an opportunity for additional PES programs to use the CRA market. This expanded market could provide not only monetary incentives to conserve native vegetation, but also environmental co-benefits by fostering PES programs focused on biodiversity, water conservation, and climate regulation. Effective implementation of the Forest Code will be vital to the success of this market and this hurdle brings uncertainty into the market. Long-term commitment, both within Brazil and abroad, will be essential to overcome the many challenges ahead.
Asunto: Reservas da biosfera
Florestas - Legislação
Pagamento por serviços ambientais
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: ENG - DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA PRODUÇÃO
IGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157203
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/51772
Fecha del documento: 6-abr-2016
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152311
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: PLOS ONE
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