Primer on how to use the Environmental Reserve Quota

Brasilia, May 15, 2015 – The Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM) launches a primer to help  farmers to know and apply the Environmental Reserve Quota system (CRA),  one of the tools of the Forest Code designed to solve the liability who deforested  too in the past.

Understanding the quotas is simple: the owner who advanced the legal reserve than as permitted  by law can purchase a title that has vegetation in abundance.This transaction is  done through securities traded in commodity exchanges or systems of registration and  liquidation of assets.

Thus, the CRA is a mechanism that rewards those who preserved, it helps keep the vegetation  existing and allows deforested who regularize their property. “The odds favor the  conservation and regulation of the legal reserve liabilities with great effectiveness,” says  researcher Ipam Marcelo Stabile, an author of the study. “They are excellent  opportunities for owners and the government, both from an environmental point of view as  economic.”

The booklet is available here and at the site IPAM .