Tipo de conteúdo: Dos Membros
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Lack of rain forests affect recovery work in São Paulo
São Paulo, April 15, 2015 - forest plantations are usually made in the summer period with the forecast of rain between October and March. But in the last two years it has rained less than usual, which affected several forest restoration projects undertaken by the Green Initiative as Planting Waters, implemented in São Paulo.
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Consolidation and transparency of information are key to ensure fulfillment of the CAR
Cuiabá, May 8, 2015 - The federal government announced this week to extend for another year the deadline for joining the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), which would end on 6 May. After a year in operation, the CAR, expected tool in the Forest Code, has only a quarter of rural properties registered the country. In Mato Grosso, according to the Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), about 65% of cadastrável area, which corresponds to 45% of property subject to registration, are registered.
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St. Paul’s deputies may approve law that exacerbates water crisis
Mario Mantovani - Director of Public Policy at the SOS Atlantic Forest Foundation Amid the greatest water crisis in the history of Sao Paulo, a group of Members seeking approval in the Legislative Assembly bill that regulates deforestation and decreases the Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) as riparian forests, accentuating the already critical situation
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The forestry law of São Paulo surprises
Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto This can be a simple and objective law, but sophisticated, creative and smart to deal with the state situation. However, the bill in final proceedings in the Assembly and presented in its second public hearing on November 25 plays only the minimum requirements of national law.
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New agreement the soy moratorium incorporates the new Forest Code
The Working Group of the Soy Moratorium (GTS) - which brings together industry, civil society and government - agreed to extended until May 31, 2016 the companies' commitment not to market, acquire or finance soy from deforested areas within the Amazon biome after July 2008.
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The CAR and municipalities
Mauro Pires The implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) brought to the municipalities an additional challenge in the task of enforcing the new Forest Code. Although the responsibility to provide the means to put into practice the CAR is in the hands of state governments, the action takes place even at the municipal level. Properly structured to fulfill the mission, municipalities can be important driver for environmental compliance in their territories.
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increasing deforestation threatens Brazil’s emissions target
Marcio Santilli - Founding Partner of the Socio-Environmental Institute Increased deforestation proven by Prodes in 2013 did not constitute a "point out the curve."
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A law that does not help the forests of São Paulo
Roberto Resende - President Green Initiative No need to remember the water crisis in São Paulo, or the importance of forests for the conservation of water resources. Be the overall regulatory climate is the most local effects of watershed protection is evident the importance of vegetation in the hydrological cycle. Riparian forests do not produce water, but help regulate the flow of watercourses attenuating the peaks of floods and releasing water slowly into the soil and preventing the silting of reservoirs.
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environmental democracy must advance
Renato Morgado The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, ECO92, defines the commitment of governments to ensure access to participation, information and justice on environmental issues.
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Forest Code in the debate Globe
Roberto Smeraldi, director of Friends of the Earth examines the late appearance of the theme "climate change" in the presidential debate and the content of the exchange between the president and the PSDB candidate, who cited the CAR.
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