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Este relatório comunica as estatísticas de desmatamento e degradação florestal 2002-2020 para a floresta tropical nos países sul-americanos da região amazônica, com base no novo conjunto de dados JRC Tropical Moist Forest (JRC-TMF). Além disso, o relatório descreve a dinâmica do desmatamento e degradação florestal na região, enfatizando vários tipo...

The Brazilian government’s decision to open the Amazon biome to sugarcane expansion reignited EU concerns regarding the sustainability of Brazil’s sugar sector, hindering the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. Meanwhile, in the EU, certain conventional biofuels face stricter controls, whilst uncertainty surrounding the commercialisati...

This report aims to communicate the statistics of deforestation and forest degradation 2002-2020 for the rainforest in the South American countries of the Amazon region, based on the new JRC Tropical Moist Forest (JRC-TMF) dataset. In addition, the report describes the dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in the region, while putting an...

The EU Bioeconomy Strategy, updated in 2018, in its Action Plan pledges an EU-wide, internationally coherent monitoring system to track economic, environmental and social progress towards a sustainable bioeconomy. This paper presents the approach taken by the European Commission’s (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC) to develop such a system. To accomp...

In promoting a more sustainably responsible model of trade led growth, the EU is seeking to make trade agreements with third countries conditional on strict environmental criteria as a means to promote sustainable development globally and avoid spill overs arising from its imports of biocommodities. In this context, this study assessed the sustaina...

Floods, landslides, and mudslides are frequent phenomena in Rio de Janeiro state (RJ). In the past decades, several catastrophic events have occurred and caused severe damages to people and infrastructure. In contrast, the persistent droughts that affected Southeast Brazil between 2014 and 2017 are phenomena that were not known earlier – at least i...

The International Migration Drivers report quantifies the relative importance of the drivers of migration at international level in a comprehensive way by income levels of countries of origin. Different channels of migration (voluntary migration flows between 1980 and 2017, asylum seekers, residence permits) are analysed separately. The drivers con...

Floods, landslides, and mudslides are frequent phenomena in Rio de Janeiro state (RJ). In the past decades, several catastrophic events have occurred and caused severe damages to people and infrastructure. In contrast, the persistent droughts that affected Southeast Brazil between 2014 and 2017 are phenomena that were not known earlier – at least i...

The lack of information on the climate-related vulnerability of territories, populations, and productive sectors in Brazil—and the ecosystems that they are dependent upon—is a serious constraint to identifying possible strategies for local and regional adaptation to climate change. In order to mainstream adaptation efforts in sectors’ planning and...

Este relatório tem como objetivo subsidiar o trabalho de Análise das políticas e programas de financiamento a boas práticas existentes no mundo e no Brasil, com foco no Programa de Agricultura de Baixo Carbono (ABC). São apresentadas evidências a partir de revisão bibliográfica, bem como uma revisão analítica de documentos oficiais do Governo sobr...

Essa análise tem como função avaliar a atratividade das linhas de crédito oferecidas pelo Programa ABC –Agricultura de Baixo Carbono (ABC Recuperação; ABC integração e ABC Ambiental) a partir da análise da demanda por recursos e processo de contratação, até a liberação do financiamento e monitoramento dos resultados, e sua conjugação dos IGEMAs - I...

The HAND (Height Above the Nearest Drainage) model has been applied as a robust indicator for mapping flood susceptibility and the gradients of hydrological-edaphic-ecological processes. This paper extends the HAND model by combining the vertical and horizontal distances in relation to the nearest drainage to generate the indicators of floodable cr...

O modelo HAND (Height Above the Nearest Drainage) tem sido aplicado como um indicador robusto para mapeamento de susceptibilidade a inundações e gradientes de processos hidrológicos-edáficos-ecológicos. Este artigo estende o modelo HAND ao combinar a altura e a distância horizontal em relação ao corpo hídrico mais próximo, para gerar indicadores da...

The lack of information on the climate-related vulnerability of territories, populations, and productive sectors in Brazil – and the ecosystems that they are dependent upon – is a serious constraint to identifying possible strategies for local and regional adaptation to climate change. In order to mainstream adaptation efforts in sectors’ planning...

Belo Horizonte is one of the major cities in Brazil and, as other cities in Latin America, it faces climate change-related challenges such as floods and health issues. In order to assist the city in the understanding and preparation for impacts, the present study comprised the assessment of the climate vulnerability of Belo Horizonte. This study us...

Projected climate change will lead to major shifts in farming systems, especially in tropical regions. Brazilian agriculture sector has been playing an important role in country economic growth during the last decades, but the observed soaring trend in extreme events frequency and magnitude poses a threat to its mid and long-term competitiveness an...

Este Relatório Técnico apresenta a versão final do Inventário de Emissões e Remoções Antrópicas de Gases de Efeito Estufa (GEE) do Distrito Federal. Acompanha este documento os arquivos do banco de dados e as memórias de cálculo extraídas do IPCC Inventory Software. Vale ressaltar que o detalhamento dos aspectos metodológicos utilizados para a cont...

The environmental costs of intensive farming activities are often under-estimated or not traded by the market, even though they play an important role in addressing future society’s needs. The estimation of nitrogen (N) dynamics is thus an important issue which demands detailed simulation based methods and their integrated use to correctly represen...

The environmental costs of intensive farming activities are often under-estimated or not traded by the market, even though they play an important role in addressing future society’s needs. The estimation of nitrogen (N) dynamics is thus an important issue which demands detailed simulation based methods and their integrated use to correctly represen...

The EU cross-compliance (CC) instrument implies that farmers receive payments subject to meeting Statutory Management Requirements (SMRs) related to environment, food safety, animal and plant health and animal welfare, as well as standards of good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAECs). This report describes the approach and application...

We investigated the effects of the agricultural Cross Compliance measures for European cultivated lands, focusing on nitrogen (N) fluxes from corn fields. Four scenarios have been designed according to some conservation farming practices, namely no-till, max manure, catch crop and N splitting. Results indicated that (1) in the no-till scenario the...

The environmental costs of intensive farming activities are often under-estimated or not included into rural development plans, even though they play an important role in addressing future society's needs. This paper focuses on the use of statistical learning methods to predict N2O emissions and N leaching under several conservative scenarios, in o...

This contribution provides a strategy for studying and modelling the deforestation and soil deterioration in the natural forest reserve of Peten, Guatemala, using a poor spatial database. A Multispectral Image Processing of Spot and TM Landsat data permits to understand the behaviour of the past land cover dynamics; a multi-temporal analysis of Nor...

The mechanisms that push a society into degrading its environment are often unclear and frequently described in a rather simplistic way. The land use and cover changes (LUCC) derive from a synergetic combination of several factors arranged on different space-time resolutions and organizing levels, which vary according to the geographical and socio-...

The frequent use of predictive models for analyzing of complex, natural or artificial phenomena is changing the traditional approaches to environmental and hazard problems. The continuous improvement of computer performance allows for more detailed numerical methods, based on space-time discretisation, to be developed and run for a predictive model...

Over the last decade, remote sensing data has been proved to be a unique aid to characterize vegetation, soil and other materials on the surface of the earth. Satellite information is routinely processed to recognize and map faults and fractures where there is a strong probability of an intrusive ore deposit. Moreover, it is used to understand the...

L’uso frequente dei modelli predittivi per l’analisi di sistemi complessi, naturali o artificiali, sta cambiando il tradizionale approccio alle problematiche ambientali e di rischio. Il continuo miglioramento delle capacità di elaborazione dei computer facilita l’utilizzo e la risoluzione di metodi numerici basati su una discretizzazione spazio-tem...