Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Amazon Fund
- created by a presidential
decree in 2008
- following the 'Plan of Action for
Protection and Control of
Deforestation in the Legal
Amazon'
- Brazilian authorities allocate $500 million
- further $1 billion needed annually in donations
- donations can be made
by other countries
- $1 billion donated by
Norway
- donations are linked to emission trends
- economic incentive for reducing deforestation
- managed by the Brazilian Development Bank
- provides for
- environmental monitoring and control, environmental legislation
- sustainable forest management
- economic activities based on sustainable use of the forest
- conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- management of public forests and protected areas
- restoration of deforested areas
- surveys of relevant areas (economic and ecological data), land use planning and regulation