Enabling large-scale forest restoration in Minas Gerais state, Brazil
| dc.creator | Felipe S. M. Nunes | |
| dc.creator | Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho | |
| dc.creator | Raoni Rajão | |
| dc.creator | Frank Merry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-17T22:28:05Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-08T22:56:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-17T22:28:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-04-12 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.format.mimetype | ||
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6658 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1748-9326 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1843/52108 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Enviromental Research Letters | |
| dc.rights | Acesso Aberto | |
| dc.subject | Ecologia | |
| dc.subject | Florestas - Legislação | |
| dc.subject | Florestas - Reprodução | |
| dc.subject.other | Código florestal | |
| dc.subject.other | Passivo ambiental | |
| dc.subject.other | Regeneração florestal | |
| dc.subject.other | Assisted natural regeneration | |
| dc.subject.other | Spatial optimization model | |
| dc.subject.other | Dinamica EGO | |
| dc.title | Enabling large-scale forest restoration in Minas Gerais state, Brazil | |
| dc.type | Artigo de periódico | |
| local.citation.epage | 10 | |
| local.citation.issue | 4 | |
| local.citation.spage | 0 | |
| local.citation.volume | 12 | |
| local.description.resumo | Large-scale forest restoration is a cornerstone of Brazil's new Forest Code and a key element in its National Determined Contribution (NDC) to emissions reduction. But the path to this target remains unclear due to a lack of information on its economics and implementation challenges. Here, we begin to fill this gap by developing a spatially-explicit model for Minas Gerais state that estimates the costs and benefits of native vegetation regeneration under different restoration approaches. Our results show that 36% (0.7 million ha) of the Forest Code debt in Minas Gerais can be restored using only passive restoration, at a cost of US$ 175 ± 47 million. Adding low-cost assisted natural regeneration would increase that number to 75% (1.5 million ha) at a cost of US$ 776 ± 137 million over a 20 yr period. This would result in a potential sequestration of 284 MtCO2e. However, including the intensive planting methods needed to restore the remaining 25% of highly degraded areas—to fully solve the Forest Code debt and result in a potential sequestration of 345 MtCO2e—would more than double the costs to US$ 1.7 ± 0.3 billion. Our results emphasize the need to implement regional policies that take advantage of the natural regeneration potential as well as prioritize the restoration of areas key to ecosystem services. | |
| local.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-946X | |
| local.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1133-4837 | |
| local.publisher.country | Brasil | |
| local.publisher.department | IGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA | |
| local.publisher.initials | UFMG | |
| local.url.externa | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6658 |