A Financing Facility for Low-Carbon Development in Developing Countries

Gouvello, Christophe De; Zelenko, Ivan; Ambrosi, Philippe

doi:10.1596/978-0-8213-8521-0

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“…To map the potential demand of CRAs from landowners with high land-use opportunity costs and FC debt, we used results from a spatial simulation model, OTIMIZAGRO, an upgraded version of SimAmazonia/SimBrasil [ 11 , 12 ]. OTIMIZAGRO is a nationwide, spatially-explicit model that simulates land use, land-use change, forestry, deforestation, regrowth, and associated carbon emissions under various scenarios of agricultural land demand and deforestation policies for Brazil [ 7 ].…”

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Brazil’s Market for Trading Forest Certificates

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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.

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“…Gouvello et al (2011) estimated that increasing beef productivity could provide the land needed for the expansion of crops for food and biofuel production in a near-zero deforestation scenario, while meeting increasing livestock product demand, at least up to 2040. Such actions are likely to reduce GHG emissions by lowering methane per unit of product, by avoiding deforestation, and through increasing soil organic carbon stocks (Gouvello et al, 2010).…”

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“…Can the Amazon frontier sustain continued agricultural growth without increasing emissions or pressures on deforestation? Gouvello et al [28] examined land-cover and land-use change and forestry scenarios to simulate the impacts of future agricultural expansion in Brazil. In the low-carbon scenario, cropland for grains in Mato Grosso would expand by 20 per cent, from 7.3 to 8.8 million ha.…”

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“…This is to be achieved through the intensification of the cattle industry in order to spare land for soya bean and sugarcane production [28]. Both Brazil's National Climate Change Plan and the proposed Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action aim to constrain new deforestation through intensified cattle production.…”

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Prospects for land-use sustainability on the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon

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Soares‐Filho

Cerri

2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The Brazilian Amazon frontier shows how remarkable leadership can work towards increased agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability without new greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to initiatives among various stakeholders, including national and state government and agents, farmers, consumers, funding agencies and non-governmental organizations. Change has come both from bottom-up and top-down actions of these stakeholders, providing leadership, financing and monitoring to foster environmental sustainability and agricultural growth. Goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-cover and land-use change in Brazil are being achieved through a multi-tiered approach that includes policies to reduce deforestation and initiatives for forest restoration, as well as increased and diversified agricultural production, intensified ranching and innovations in agricultural management. Here, we address opportunities for the Brazilian Amazon in working towards low-carbon rural development and environmentally sustainable landscapes.

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A Financing Facility for Low-Carbon Development in Developing Countries

Cited by 15 publications

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Brazil’s Market for Trading Forest Certificates

Brazil’s Market for Trading Forest Certificates

Reply to 'Emissions from cattle farming in Brazil'

Prospects for land-use sustainability on the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon

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