📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (Embrapa), participated on August 14 and 15 in a workshop in Campinas (SP), to align the development of the zero deforestation system integration system (Sigez). In preparation, the tool will support federal government actions related to territorial planning and monitoring and combating deforestation and forest fires, especially in the Amazon.
For this, Sigez will bring together, in a single environment hosted on the MMA website, existing databases that are not currently integrated, such as the MMA National Rural Register System (SICAR), the Satellite Legal Amazon Deforestation Project (Prodes) and the Deter -Deter Deforestation Detection System (Deter), both from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
There will also be connection with instruments built by other bodies, including from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) and the Central Bank of Brazil.
According to the general coordinator of deforestation control of the Extraordinary Secretariat of Control of MMA deforestation and environmental planning, Diego Pereira, the differential of the platform is the capacity for integration. It will be a data analysis engine, integrating essential information to support the monitoring of the Ministrys actions and monitor the evolution of deforestation and forest fires, he said.
Despite the focus on the Amazon, the platform will have national coverage, with public access. The information will also be subsidized the implementation of the laboratory for zero deforestation (labde), an initiative that will use advanced geotechnologies to generate indicators capable of guiding environmental public policies.
For UNDP technical advisor for the Forest+ Amazon project, an action that is coordinated by MMA, Carlos Casteloni, the new platform is a sum of efforts with the Floresta+ Amazon that acts to reward those who keep the forest, he said.
The development of the platform will be conducted by a team of ten Embrapa researchers and analysts, with financial management of the Arthur Bernardes Foundation (Funarbe) and support from the Forest+ Amazon project, under Green Fund Fund funding (GCF). The expected duration is 36 months, 24 months for execution and 12 months for maintenance. An initial version of presentation is expected to be released in November during COP30 in Belem (PA). We will improve it more and more and, after it is ready, MMA will be responsible for continuing and maintenance, explained Embrapa researcher and one of the projects leaders, Joao Vila.
