The system can be used as a reference and can be applied to any settlement of the country and aims to operationalize the monitoring of deforestation, forest degradation and land use in the settlements and properties associated with PAS.
The hidden emissions: how Amazon wildfires can boost Brazil’s CO2 emissions
The hidden emissions: how Amazon wildfires can boost Brazil’s CO2 emissions
This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.