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VI Seminário Internacional de Governança de Terras e Desenvolvimento Econômico

Elos do Cerrado — Onde o Cerrado se encontra

Elos do Cerrado — Onde o Cerrado se encontra  * Por Instituto Cerrados (@institutocerrados) O Cerrado, além de ser a savana […]

Forests in São Paulo: Lost opportunity

Roberto Resende - President of the Green Initiative With the approval of PL 219, an opportunity has been missed to create a law that inovasse wherever possible, taking into account the particularities of São Paulo, a state that has been leadership in environmental issues. 

Analysis: Decree defines agricultural policy for planted forests

Albenir Querubini Gonçalves - Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of University agraristas Decree regulates Article 72 of the Forest Code and makes way for credit to planted forests in productive areas.

The Forest Code and cities: the dilemma of urban APPs

Nelson Novaes Pedroso Jr, Sandra Steinmetz and Andrew Castro dos Santos To what extent the outlines of the PPAs given by the Forest Code are applicable to urban areas? It is desirable and feasible to establish criteria to differentiate the areas eligible for protection, regulation and recovery? What is the limit for new occupations in urban PPAs, even for public utility and social interest? There's like having a federal regulation on urban APPs that direct the municipal disciplining these areas? If so, the Forest Code should be changed or can regulate urban PPAs through an existing law or to be developed? * Nelson Novaes Pedroso is coordinator of the research line rule of law and Environment Applied Legal Research Center of the School of Law of São Paulo FGV (CPJA / FGV RIGHT SP). Sandra Steinmetz is director of the Environmental Consulting and researcher at CPJA / FGV RIGHT SP. Andrew is a researcher at the CPJA / FGV SP RIGHT

A new law for the forests of São Paulo?

Roberto Resende Analysis of the vetoes of the governor Geraldo Alckmin to 15,684 law establishing the Environmental Regularization Program of.

Gray will also be the new government of Minas?

Dalce Rich Sad and gray government was to Antonio Augusto Anastasia in the environmental area. When he was vice governor Aécio Neves demonstrated in several moments concern and solidarity with the environmental cause.

CAR next step will require new strategies and dialogue

Rodrigo Medeiros The data released this week by the federal government give us a clear dimension of the immense challenge that will finalize the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) until May 2016. In this first year of registration, of the 5.5 million existing rural properties in Brazil, only 1.4 million had their data entered into the system.

House of Representatives discusses the Environmental Reserve Quota

The Environmental Reserve Quota (CRAs), created in the reform of the Forest Code will be theme of seminar on Thursday (7), at the Auditorium Freitas Nobre, in Annex IV of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia. CRAs are securities that represent a natural vegetation area on a farm and can be used to compensate for lack of legal reserve in another. The event is sponsored by the Environmentalist Parliamentary Front for the Conservation Strategy and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in partnership with the Center of the Forest Code.

Forest Code wins monitoring portal

The implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code gets a new tool: the portal of the Forest Code , developed by the Exchange of Environmental Values ( BVRio ), gathers information in order to facilitate, promote transparency and contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of the law.