BRAZILIAN AMAZON APD GROUPED PROJECT

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Amazonas Region, Brazil

BRAZILIAN AMAZON APD GROUPED PROJECT

The Brazilian Amazon APD Grouped Project (GPD) aims the forest conservation on private properties located in the nine states of the Legal Amazon. The GPD main goal it is to create positive economic incentives to landowners for the rainforest and Cerrado conservation in private areas, through income generation from carbon credits commercialization. According to national law 12.651, the Brazilian forest code, landowners must conserve 80% of the forest cover and 35% of the Cerrado areas on properties located in the Legal Amazon. In this way, the areas with forest cover exceeding this percentage can be legally converted to other land uses for commercial activities such as cattle raising or agricultural projects, with the authorization of the responsible environmental agency in each state. The landowners who decide to join the initiative, by giving up their right to legally clear their forest areas will be able to access financial resources from the carbon voluntary market, becoming BRCarbon partners. The partnership between BRCarbon (BRC) and landowners will result in legal protection to forests, forest monitoring by satellite images, forest biomass inventory using drones and innovative aero photogrammetry techniques associated with LIDAR technology, property surveillance, wildfire monitoring, prevention and firefighting activities, threatened species protection and social engagement activities with traditional communities living inside the project area. BRC will be responsible for the development, implementation, monitoring and certification of the project instances. The landowner’s counterpart is to allow project activities to be implemented in their areas, in addition to freely committing to their long-term conservation. In this way, BRC expects to escalate the climate impact promoted by the implementation of carbon projects, bringing positive net benefits to communities and biodiversity.

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