It is possible to reduce deforestation in the Amazon, cheaply, and Brazil has strong potential in the carbon capture market. That’s what stated José Seemsmanfrom Columbia University, no. In the panel, the researcher presented his work: “Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of Reforestation in the Amazon.”
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According to Scheinkmanthe present gain with less productive cattle in the Amazon region could be compensated, with distance, for reforestation and potential of the carbon market.
“Brazil could receive $ 422 billion in the current value over 50 years, widely compensating for the value lost in cattle production,” says the researcher. Considering that the carbon capture performed in Brazil would be cheaper than other existing versions, the gain would be immense.
“We have carbon price disproportionate,” he says. “It is not only a cheap carbon capture place, but Brazil could be funded by practice,” says Scheinkman.
“There is no payment for simply preserving,” says the researcher. “We got in the study, the data suggest that cattle carbon dioxide production happens mostly in places of lower carbon absorption by plants in the Amazon. Considering the areas abandoned by at least 6 years, the model created by the researchers suggests that natural reforestation would have better results.
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In addition to forest recovery that could generate greater carbon capture opportunities, biodiversity would also be positively influenced. Currently, the loss is 17% biodiversity but with carbon sale, the perspective is 6% gain in biodiversity. For the preservation of biodiversity, it is imperative that there is also the preservation of the territory and, with reforestation, 90% of the original species can be reactive in 30 years.
The loss of biodiversity in a specific area, according to the researcher, causes the whole system to be impacted by the worst use of the areas that were preserved.
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“If you look at the data, the trees are very different from each other,” he says. The teacher reinforces, however, the importance of producing numbers to establish models. Among the data used by researchers are spatial data and data on cattle farm productivity.
“There is no Amazon rainforest, there are Amazonian forests in the plural,” says the researchers. Therefore, for better analysis, the developed model detailed the Amazon space in over 1000 fractions.
