The plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation and Forest Fires in Cerrado (PPCerrado) was launched in September, 2010. The main objective is to promote the reduction in the rate of deforestation and forest degradation, as well as the incidence of burning and forest fires in the Cerrado, through joint actions and partnerships between federal, state, municipalities and civil society, business sector and academia. The plan has three main components: (i) monitoring and environmental control; (ii) protected areas and spatial planning and (iii) incentives to sustainable productive activities. Environmental education is aimed to cover those three areas. These activities will be developed in partnership with different sectors, including federal institutions, state governments, municipalities, civil society organizations and private sector.
Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation and Forest Fires in the Cerrado
Elements of REDD
Management and coordination
PP Cerrado is under the coordination of the Civil House and the Permanent Group of Inter-ministries Work, assisted by an Executive Commission, which is responsible to manage and coordinate the actions of the federal government for reducing deforestation.
Stakeholder engagement and participation
Some organizations of civil society were involved in the revision of the plan, however only a few physical meetings were held to discuss the plan in detail with stakeholders.
Rights and tenure
The plan details a series of activities related to land tenure such as the planning of the territory with the aim of promoting the occupation of lands and the land use in a sustainable way, which includes the creation of 2.5 million hectares of conservation Unities and the consolidation of the existing conservation Unities in the Biome , demarcation of 5.5 million hectares and approval of 300 000 hectares indigenous lands, water resources use planning and the preparation of macro-ecological zoning of the biome, and encourages states to do the same.
Compliance (incentives and enforcement)
The plan details the creation and implementation of the monitoring system of entire biome (with the production of annual rates) , the development and implementation of the detection system of deforestation in real time and the intensification of surveillance operations in road junctions.
Reference level
On reference levels, Brazil has adopted the historical baseline approach, considering the average deforestation rates for the past 10 years (1996 - 2005) and linearly projecting it into the future, and decreasing according to the targets established on the plan. The deforestation rates need to be revised every 5 years, and the average of the 10 previous years is again linearly projected. The document doesn't directly address other methodological issues.
Safeguards
The plan also includes activities which aim to generate incentives to sustainable production. To achieve this, the plan aims to implement actions for a sustainable agricultural policy, provide support to indigenous and traditional communities, foster research and development of sustainable productive models to the Cerrado, and provide support to rural development on sustainable basis, among others. In addition, as the Cerrado is rich in biodiversity (estimates say that Brazilian Cerrado contains 5% of the global biodiversity) and important for water supply, the activities established by the plan will help to protect this biodiversity from extinction, since many plant and animal species in the Cerrado are on the list of endangered species, and ensure the quality and quantity of water supplied by the river basins in the region.
MRV
The methodology used to monitor the results will be provided by the Centro de Monitoramento Ambiental do Ibama (Cemam/Ibama) system (INPE). In this sense, the main indicator for PPCerrado will be the annual rate of deforestation in Cerrado Biome. Besides the annual rate of deforestation, other indicators will be used for other purposes of the Plan, as the number of hotspots, the percentage of area protected by conservation area, the enhencement on the number of sociobiodiversity products inserted in supply chains for comercialization among others
