#deforestation-governance
Issues, solutions, and case studies for deforestation-governance
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Issues 2
#00121Preventing new ocean disposal of hazardous waste
Stopping new ocean disposal is upstream of every other facet: the 200,000+ drums on the abyssal plain exist because deliberate sea dumping was accepted practice for decades. The priority now is keeping the ban in force, extending it to adjacent proposals, and ensuring it is actua
#00034Large-scale tropical deforestation driven mostly by illegal land clearing for agriculture and mining
Across tropical forest nations, most clearing is illegal and tied to cattle, soy/palm, land-grabbing, and mining. It is profitable, remote, hard to police, and weakly enforced when political will lapses — progress is real but reversible.
Solutions 1
#00037Whole-of-government coordination plan (PPCDAm) backed by a performance-based international fund (Amazon Fund)
Bind the measures with a standing interministerial action plan (PPCDAm) covering land-use planning, monitoring and sustainable production, funded by a performance-based mechanism (the Amazon Fund) that pays out only after verified reductions and draws sustained donor finance.
Case studies 1
BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank), with donors Norway (NICFI), Germany (KfW/BMZ), UK, US, Switzerland, Japan, Denmark, and Petrobras · since 2008 · National
The Amazon Fund is a performance-based forest finance mechanism created in 2008 and managed by Brazil's development bank BNDES. It disburses money only after INPE verifies that deforestation has fallen below a baseline,…
Norway (NICFI), Germany (KfW/BMZ), UK, US, Switzerland, Japan, Denmark, Petrobras — performance-based transfers contingent on verified deforestation reductions · 2 sources