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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments
Autor(es): Rachel D. Garrett
S. Levy
Kimberly M. Carlson
Toby Alan Gardner
Javier Godar
Jennifer Clapp
Peter Dauvergne
Robert Heilmayr
Yann le Polain de Waroux
Ben Ayre
R. Barr
B. Døvre
Holly K. Gibbs
Simon C. Hall
S. Lake
Jeffrey Milder
Lisa Rausch
Rodrigo Rivero
Ximena Rueda
R. Sarsfield
Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho
Nelson Villoria
Resumen: Zero-deforestation commitments are a type of voluntary sustainability initiative that companies adopt to signal their intention to reduce or eliminate deforestation associated with commodities that they produce, trade, and/ or sell. Because each company defines its own zero-deforestation commitment goals and implementation mechanisms, commitment content varies widely. This creates challenges for the assessment of commitment implementation or effectiveness. Here, we develop criteria to assess the potential effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments at reducing deforestation within a company supply chain, regionally, and globally. We apply these criteria to evaluate 52 zero-deforestation commitments made by companies identified by Forest 500 as having high deforestation risk. While our assessment indicates that existing commitments converge with several criteria for effectiveness, they fall short in a few key ways. First, they cover just a small share of the global market for deforestation-risk commodities, which means that their global impact is likely to be small. Second, biome-wide implementation is only achieved in the Brazilian Amazon. Outside this region, implementation occurs mainly through certification programs, which are not adopted by all producers and lack third-party near-real time deforestation monitoring. Additionally, around half of all commitments include zero-net deforestation targets and future implementation deadlines, both of which are design elements that may reduce effectiveness. Zero-net targets allow promises of future reforestation to compensate for current forest loss, while future implementation deadlines allow for preemptive clearing. To increase the likelihood that commitments will lead to reduced deforestation across all scales, more companies should adopt zero-gross deforestation targets with immediate implementation deadlines and clear sanction-based implementation mechanisms in biomes with high risk of forest to commodity conversion.
Asunto: Biodiversidade - Conservação
Sustentabilidade
Ecologia
Florestas
Cadeia de suprimentos - Gerenciamento
Agricultura
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: IGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.11.003
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52291
Fecha del documento: ene-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378018306654?via%3Dihub
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Global Environmental Change
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