Las Comunicaciones Nacionales Brasileñas y sus liciones para la

América Latina

Philip M. Fearnside

Instituto Nacional de Investigación de la Amazonía – INPA

http://philip.inpa.gov.brAporte a las Contribuciones Nacionales (INDC) de Perú y la financiación internacional

para el cambio climático en América Latina: Ronda de comentarios y reflexiones. 2014 Global Landscape Forum (GLF). Org. CIFOR & DAR, Hotel Westin , Lima.

6 Diciembre 2014. “

http://inct-servamb.inpa.gov.br/

Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia dos Serviços Ambientais da Amazônia –SERVAMB

Ministerio do Meio Ambiente (MMA). The Brazilian Redd Strategy. MMA, Brasília, DF, 29 pp. (2009).

http://climatepolicyinitiative.org/2012/03/28/deforestation-slowdown-in-the-

brazilian-amazon-prices-or-policies/

(Resolução BACEN nº 3.545/2008)

Ministerio do Meio Ambiente (MMA). The Brazilian Redd Strategy. MMA, Brasília, DF, 29 pp. (2009).

(MCT, 2004. Comunicação Nacional, p. 146)

(Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, p. 67)

(Comunicação Nacional, p. 146)

Emissões do corte do Cerrado:

(Grandin 2012, p. 14)

Bubbles in a tributary in Santo Antônio.

Tucuruí spillway photo

Fearnside & Pueyo, 2012. Nature Climate Change

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). (2011) Renewable Energy

Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change. Edenhofer O, Madruga RP, Sokona Y, Seyboth K,

Eickemeier P, Matschoss P, Hansen G, Kadner S, Schlomer S, Zwickel T von

Stechow C (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1075 pp [available

at: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srren/srren_full_report.pdf] p. 982.

CDM Hydro pipeline [a]

Country Total Installed CO2e[c] % of

projects[b] capacity average/yr total

(MW) (million t) CO2e

China 1,410 61,280 179.7 62.2

Brazil 117 8,495 17.8 6.2

Other non-Annex I[d] 774 88,577 91.4 31.6

Total 2,301 158,352 288.9 100.0

[a] as of 30 January 2012. Data from Chu (2012) based on the UNEP Risoe Centre (http://cdmpipeline.org/).

[b] Includes both "large" (defined by the CDM as > 15 MW) and "small" (≤ 15 MW) projects.

[c] 1 ton carbon-dioxide equivalent (CO2e) = 1 certified emissions reduction (CER).

[d]Countries without limits on their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.

(Fearnside, 2013)

Fearnside, P.M. 2013. Credit for climate

mitigation by Amazonian dams: Loopholes

and impacts illustrated by Brazil’s Jirau

Hydroelectric Project. Carbon Management

4(6): 681-696. doi: 10.4155/CMT.13.57

Fearnside, P.M. 2013. Carbon credit for

hydroelectric dams as a source of

greenhouse-gas emissions: The example of

Brazil’s Teles Pires Dam. Mitigation and

Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

18(5): 691-699. doi: 10.1007/s11027-012-9382-6

Foto: R.I. Barbosa

Laurance et al., 2014

Laurance et al., 2014

Laurance, W.F.; A.S. Andrade, A. Magrach, J.L.C. Camargo, J.J. Valsko, M. Campbell, P.M. Fearnside, W. Edwards, T.E. Lovejoy & S.G. Laurance. 2014. Long-term changes in liana abundance and forest dynamics in undisturbed Amazonian forests. Ecology 95(6): 1604-1611. doi: 10.1890/13-1571.1

Laurance, W.F.; A.S. Andrade, A. Magrach, J.L.C. Camargo, M. Campbell, P.M. Fearnside, W. Edwards, J.J. Valsko, T.E. Lovejoy & S.G. Laurance. 2014. Apparent environmental synergism drives the dynamics of Amazonian forest fragments. Ecology95(11): 3018-3026. doi: 10.1890/14-0330.1

Fearnside, P.M. 2013. What is at stake for Brazilian Amazonia in the climate negotiations. Climatic Change. 118(3): 509-519. doi: 10.1007/s10584-012-0660-9

Fearnside, P.M. 2012. Brazil's Amazon Forest in mitigating global warming: unresolved controversies. Climate Policy 12(1): 70-81. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2011.581571

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