India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Britaldo Soares-Filho

• Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

  Protected areas (PAs) now shelter 54% of the remaining forests of the Brazilian Amazon and contain 56% of its forest carbon. However, the role of these PAs in reducing carbon fluxes to the atmosphere from deforestation and their associated costs are still uncertain.

  • 15/06/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Amazon
    • Tropical Forests
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Protected Area Conservation
    • Brazil
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Paulo Moutinho
    • Britaldo Soares-Filho
    • Daniel Nepstad & et al

• Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change

  Forest clearing and degradation account for roughly 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the cars, trains, planes, ships, and trucks on earth. This is simply too big a piece of the problem to ignore; fail to reduce it and we will fail to stabilize our climate.

  • 16/03/2010

  • PLoS Biology
  • • Amazon
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Tribals
    • Protected Area Conservation
    • Benefit Sharing
    • Brazil
    • REDD