Brazil’s government on Monday unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in theby 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental crimes and other measures in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
Under former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil joined a 2021 pact with more than 140 countries to end deforestation globally by 2030. Left-wing President“I’m committed to resuming Brazil’s global leadership in mitigatingResearch: Amazon rainforest now emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon sets a coordinated policy across more than a dozen ministries through the end of Lula’s term in 2027.It calls for boosted use of intelligence and satellite imagery to track criminal activity, regularization of land titles and use of a rural registry to monitor correct management of forests considered vital for slowing global climate change.
Degraded forests will be recovered and native vegetation increased through economic incentives for conservation and sustainable forest management, the plan says. Among the actions to be taken, authorities will cross-check information from the financial system with the rural registry and other databases and satellite images to root out illegal loggers and cattle ranching.Financial intelligence can, for example, point to cash movements to pay for equipment such as chainsaws for logging or excavators for illegal wildcat gold mining.