CONTEXTUALIZATION
The Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), provided for by the current Forestry Code (Law n. 12,651/2012), consists of a nationwide public electronic registry, compulsory for all rural properties, containing georeferenced spatial information of rural properties, including the delimitation of permanent protection areas (APP), legal reserves (RL), remnants of native vegetation, consolidated rural area and areas of social interest and public utility. The CAR is aimed at integrating the environmental information of rural properties and land possessions, composing a database for control, monitoring, environmental and economic planning and fight against deforestation.
Owners or possessors register with the CAR through the provision of this information in the Rural Environmental Registry System (SICAR). After registration, the state environmental agency analyzes and validates the registries. In case of identification of environmental liabilities in the property registered, the rural owner or settler may require the adherence to Environmental Regularization Program (PRA), which is the set of actions or initiatives to be developed by rural owners and settlers to adapt and promote the environmental regularization.
The CAR and the PRA are, thus, important instruments to recover the vegetation cover and their effective implementation contributes to the achievement of commitments taken by the Brazilian Government regarding the reduction in the emission of greenhouse gas emissions in the Paris Agreement. In addition, the environmental recovery of degraded or deforested areas ensure the maintenance of environmental services such as climate regulation and maintenance of water bodies.
The project contributes to the implementation of the CAR, since it aims to produce a georeferenced database about the coverage of the land use in the Amazon biome that will allow integration as a new module of the SICAR and will support the steps of analysis and validation of the CAR by the states.
THE PROJECT
The project proposes to perform the land cover and use mapping, and mapping and update of hydrographic networks of the entire Amazon biome, in high-precision scale (1:20.000), with satellite images used in the System for Rural Environmental Registry (SICAR) as reference. This mapping will enable the monitoring of land use in the range of properties, protected areas and indigenous lands, as well as enable the demarcation of permanent preservation areas (APP) of water bodies and the calculation of environmental liabilities in APPs of water.
The maps generated will be consolidated into a georeferenced database that will be integrated into SICAR, composing a new module of the platform, with free access to state and municipal administrators. Such database will be an instrument of analysis and validation of registries for the states and municipalities, allowing for better visualization of APPs of water bodies, as well as of the land use and cover in the rural properties of the Amazon biome.
Finally, the project provides for the dissemination of information generated along with the bodies responsible for the implementation of the environmental policy in the states of the Amazon biome, Ministry of Environment, managing bodies of protected areas and indigenous lands.
Thus, the project will contribute to the identification of environmental liabilities and to the improvement in the process of analysis and validation of registries with the SICAR. In addition, the thematic bases and the maps generated by the project can serve as a subsidy to implementation of the CAR and other public policies aimed at the control of deforestation, environmental management, restoration of vegetation cover, and management of water resources in the local, state and federal spheres.
INTERVENTION LOGIC
The project is part of the components “monitoring and control” (2) and “science, innovation and economic instruments” (4) of the logical framework of the Amazon Fund.
The project proposes to map the land cover and hydrography for all the Amazon biome in the best scale available, as well as to map and calculate the liabilities of areas of permanent preservation (APPs) of water for the entire biome. The products generated will be consolidated into a georeferenced database, which will be integrated into the SICAR, composing a new module of the platform to support the steps of analysis and validation of the CAR by the states.
Thus, the project will contribute to the direct effect "structured and modernized institutions of environmental monitoring, control and accountability" (2.1) of the component “monitoring and control”, as well as to the direct effect "knowledge and technologies for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, monitoring and control of deforestation and land use planning, which were produced, disseminated and used" (4.1), of the component "science, innovation and economic instruments".
The project is expected to contribute to the implementation of the CAR, in addition to subsidizing the implementation of other instruments of the Forest Code and the other public policies aimed at the control of deforestation and environmental management.
