FOREST CONSERVATION PROJECTS
(REDD+)
The Projects' areas are located in the legal Amazon region where cattle raising, timber, mining, and agriculture are the main economic activities competing with the standing forests.
Legally, landowners would be able to deforest part of the areas for non-sustainable productive models – severely reducing the carbon stocks and potential intake. In addition, given its magnitude, the region is also threatened by illegal activities.
The without-project scenario is forest degradation and deforestation for commodities production as a result of a lack of economic alternatives for forest conservation.
GOALS
Conservation of millions of ha of Amazon Forest
LOCATION
Legal Amazon, Brazil
TYPE
Forest Conservation (REDD+)
SOCIAL IMPACTS
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Economical alternative for conserving standing forests
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Ensuring forest dependent-communities have their livelihoods guaranteed
ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS
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Climate change mitigation
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Climate change adaptation
ECONOMIC
IMPACTS
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Protecting the biggest rainforest in the world and its unique socio-environmental biodiversity
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Supporting the bioeconomy