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Floresta + Program (The Ministry of Environment has worked to prepare, submit and implement the proposal to access resources from GCF. The Floresta+ project articulates an important part of Brazil’s efforts and commitment to achieve continued reduction of deforestation. In line with the approaches already taken in the action plans to combat deforestation, the project also seeks to promote innovation, to provide incentives to rural landholders who adopt more sustainable production practices and to prioritize key stakeholders in the distribution of benefits from REDD+ results-based payments.
The project aims promoting the recognition and the payments to whom performs activities associated with conservation, improvement and recovery of native forest.
This programme has the potential to conserve more than 500 million hectares of native forests and develop a new green economy at country level. This is a great opportunity to make it possible to keep the forest standing, benefiting all Brazilian society and the world.The role of the Ministry of Environment is to ensure the structure and regulation of this emerging private market and promote large scale conservation across all biomes. Some strategies are already in place such as the Pilot Project Floresta+, with international resources from the Green Climate Fund (96 million dollars).
Concept of Payment for Environmental Services: (i) The environmental services are a set of activities developed by an individual or a community that allow for IMPROVEMENT, CONSERVATION and RECOVERY of ecosystem services that generate benefits for society. The Activities may involve making fences and firebreaks, surveillance, firefighting, research, planting native species, agroforestry activities, integrated livestock farming and forestry activities. (ii) Benefits for society include increased water availability and soil conservation; the observation of fauna and the appreciation of natural landscapes; biodiversity conservation; the maintenance and increase of carbon stocks; among others. (iii) The providers are people, companies, of public or private law, family or community groups that, directly or through third parties, perform the activities of environmental services in areas maintained with native vegetation cover or subject to their recovery. (iv) Payers are individuals or organizations, public or private, of national or international scope that, in recognizing the value of ecosystem services directly or indirectly, remunerate providers, in monetary or non-monetary form.)

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