REDD-PAC Brazil Biodiversity Policy Brief

This policy brief provides summary results produced by the REDD-PAC project about the impacts of Brazil’s Native Vegetation Protection Act, commonly known as the Forest Code (FC), on biodiversity conservation across the country’s biomes. Model projections show that the full implementation of the...

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Source	https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/WCMC_RT181
Author	UNEP-WCMC
Maintainer	UNEP-WCMC
Last Updated	March 9, 2023, 14:16 (UTC)
Created	March 9, 2023, 12:15 (UTC)
GUID	unep-wcmc-rsrc-report-wcmc_rt181
Issued	2023-03-09T01:00:52.711Z
Language	en
Modified	2023-03-09T01:00:52.711Z
Publisher email	info@unep-wcmc.org
Publisher name	UNEP-WCMC
Theme	Report
avg_rating	2
citation	UNEP, INPE, IPEA, IIASA. (2016). REDD-PAC Brazil Biodiversity Policy Brief. Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC. URL: http://wcmc.io/REDD-PAC_Brazil_Biodiversity_Policy_Brief
data_type	webpage
date_published	2016-01-01
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short_description	To support Brazil in meeting its national land-use related commitments, including biodiversity conservation, an economic land-use change model (GLOBIOM-Brazil), was used to assess the potential impacts of options for implementing the provisions of the Forest Code. The model has been validated by comparing the 2000-2010 model projections with official land-use and crop-production statistics for 2010, and was used in the development of Brazil’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).