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Prosecutors take issue with Brazil's new forestry code Forest Carbon Portal - News - 4 months ago
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Brazil launches forest trading system Rainforest Portal - News - 5 months ago
Mongabay: Brazil has launched a new platform that enables farmers and ranchers who have cleared forest beyond the legal minimum to come into compliance by purchasing forest "quotas" from landowners who have more than the mandated level of forest cover, reports the Associated Press. The system could spur increased compliance with the country's Forest Code, according to some experts. The platform, launched as part of the Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro (BVRio) or Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange last...
Most controversial aspects of Brazil's new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law Forest Carbon Portal - News - 7 months ago
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Most controversial aspects of Brazil's new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law Rainforest Portal - News - 7 months ago
Mongabay: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed into law a revised version of the country's Forest Code, vetoing some of the most controversial changes proposed by agricultural interests in Brazil's Congress. The law, signed late Thursday after President Rousseff voted nine clauses Wednesday night, requires landowners to replant millions of hectares of illegally cleared land and retains earlier provisions for maintaining forest cover of 80 percent on private properties in the Amazon rainforest....
Brazil president makes final changes to forestry law Forest Carbon Asia - News - 7 months ago
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed nine articles of a new forestry code approved by Congress that environmentalists said would lead to further deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.   Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the vetoes dealt with the most radical aspects of the measure introduced by the pro-agribusiness bloc in Congress, and were meant [...]
Brazil's Rousseff enacts forest law in blow to farm lobby Rainforest Portal - News - 7 months ago
Reuters: Brazil enacted a controversial law on Thursday meant to protect forests and force farmers to replant trees on scattered swathes of illegally cleared land totaling an area roughly the size of Italy. The law, signed by President Dilma Rousseff, overhauls the "forest code," a set of laws unchanged for decades that dictates the minimum percentage and type of woodland that farmers, timber companies and others must leave intact on their properties. The new code, following years of tense negotiations...
Brazilian Congress waters down forest protection Rainforest Portal - News - 9 months ago
Nature: The text of Brazil’s controversial Forest Code went through what is likely to be its final convulsion on Wednesday 29 August, after years of debate about how the country should balance the interests of farmers and developers with the need to protect the country’s forests. Although forest protection has been enshrined in Brazilian law since the 1960s, stricter enforcement of the rules in recent years had prompted complaints from landowners, who argued that the law was hampering the country’s...
Brazilian indigenous peoples and civil society challenge government backsliding on environment and development Forest Peoples Programme - News - 10 months ago
23 July, 2012 Brazil has made significant gradual steps to combat deforestation since the first Earth summit in 1992. Increasing recognition of indigenous peoples’ land rights in Amazonia, improved law enforcement and changes in rural credit subsidies (alongside external factors like changing commodity prices) have all helped slow annual Brazilian deforestation by 70% when compared to its peak in the 1990s (though in 2011 the country...
Indigenous Peoples' Terra Livre Declaration at Rio +20 Forest Peoples Programme - News - 11 months ago
23 June, 2012 (non-official translation into English by Earth Peoples) - To read this declaration in Portuguese click here . PEOPLES’ SUMMIT FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AGAINST THE MERCALIZATION OF LIFE, IN DEFENSE OF THE COMMONS LETTER OF RIO DE JANEIRO FINAL DECLARATION OF FREE LAND CAMP IX – LIVING WELL / HEALTHY FULL LIFE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 to 22 June 2012 We, more than 1,800 leaders, representatives of...
Amid Brazil Forest Code controversy, will Presidential vetoes benefit forests? Forest Carbon Portal - News - 11 months ago
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