Partnerships for Innovation for protecting tropical forests

Context

The task of eliminating illegal deforestation and conserving native vegetation is a major challenge. The complexity only increases when one looks at the Amazon, where 95 per cent of deforestation is illegal. The Amazon biome is a conservation priority that plays a central role in regulating water, combating climate change and conserving biological diversity and socio-biodiversity. Illegal deforestation massively affects the function that the Amazon plays in the area and worldwide.

The main instrument applied by Brazil to achieve its environmental commitments for the biome is the Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm, with an emphasis on improving intersectoral and intergovernmental cooperation to combat deforestation.

Objective

Brazil is implementing innovative solutions and approaches to combat deforestation, contributing to the conservation of the Amazon and thus to global climate protection.

Approach

Currently the project cooperates with its partners in the following areas:

• Developing a strategy with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) to engage the key public actors in executing PPCDAm, together with a system to monitor its implementation progress to provide transparency for civil society and enable evidence-based decision-making by the government.
• Working closely with IBAMA, the Brazilian agency responsible for controlling deforestation and enforcing environmental legislation, to make environmental monitoring and control processes more effective and efficient with an organisational process that maps and develops suggestions for improvements.
• Elaborating the Federal Volunteering Strategy for Integrated Fire Management (IFM) in partnership with the relevant institutions and organisations as well as representatives of civil society and community fire brigades.

Last update: September 2023