📋 Tender Overview
On August 20 and 21, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) held in Brasilia a workshop focused on the implementation of Redd+Jurisdictional Programs. The discussions occurred in the context of, which instituted the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trade System (SBCE). More than 80 people, including representatives of the federal government, state environmental secretariats, legal agencies, managers and technical partners from the states that support agenda -related initiatives, participated in the debate.
Developed within the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), REDD+ seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation, as well as encouraging the conservation of forests, sustainable management and increased carbon stocks.
In practice, it enables countries and states that protect their forests and reduce deforestation generate internationally recognized results, contributing to the facing the climate crisis. In the jurisdictional model, governance occurs on a state or national scale, in order to capture climate financing and integrate it with public policies, with a market-oriented approach.
In this context, Law 15.042/2024 plays a fundamental role, as it has direct effects on the implementation of REDD+ jurisdictional, by establishing the registration of state and judicial programs, exclusion of areas of forest carbon projects of these programs and avoid double accounting, and provides for the shareholding of benefits.
The agenda of the meeting included the debate on the technical and legal aspects essential for the regulation of the law, as well as issues related to ownership, legal certainty, benefit sharing, social and environmental safeguards and rights guarantees.
The law has brought new attributions to CONAREDD+[National Commission for Redd+]. We will be heard in relation to safeguards in the accreditation of methodologies for the Brazilian Emissions Trade System, as well as we will have a registration of state and judicial programs of REDD+, explained the director of the Department of Deforestation Control Policies and Fire of the Extraordinary Secretariat for Control of Deforestation and Territorial Environmental Office. MMA, Roberta Cantinho. We have advanced in these discussions to ensure transparency, avoid double accounting and ensure the integrity of the carbon market in Brazil, he added.
Shared Experiences
The states of Acre, Amazonas, Amapa, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Para, Piaui, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins shared their experiences in the implementation of Redd+jurisdictional programs.
In Tocantins, we are in the final phase of preparation and registration of judicial credits. It is essential that states and federal government go together in regulating the legislation. Without that, some articles of the law become implemented to be implemented. This is a strategic moment to build solutions together, said the representative of the Secretariat of Environment and Water Resources of Tocantins, Marli Santos.
Partnerships
The workshop was supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), through the Forest+ Amazon project, which is coordinated by MMA. There was also support from the interstate consortium Amazon Legal, the Earth Innovation Institute and GIZ Brasil, through the Project Action4Forest.
