PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)

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1. Story
2. The Brazilian federal programme launched in 2004, after the second-highest clearance year on record, that is generally credited with the roughly four-fifths fall in Amazon deforestation over the following decade. Its design is the interesting part: it did not rely on any single instrument. It combined near-real-time satellite alerts with field enforcement, a large expansion of protected areas and indigenous land demarcation in the path of the frontier, embargoes on specific properties, a list of priority municipalities subject to heightened scrutiny, and - the measure economists most often single out - a restriction tying access to subsidised rural credit to environmental compliance. Deforestation fell without agricultural output falling, which is the finding that makes the programme genuinely important, because it undercuts the assumption that clearance and production are the same variable. It has been through several phases, was substantially weakened in the late 2010s, and was relaunched in 2023.
3. Knowledge
4. Amazon Deforestation
5. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
6. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
7. Connections
8. Amazon Deforestation
9. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
10. PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
11. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
12. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
13. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
14. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
15. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
16. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
17. Moisture Recycling
18. The Amazon Dieback Threshold
19. Forest Degradation
20. The Southeastern Amazon as a Carbon Source
21. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
22. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
23. Amazon Soy Moratorium
24. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
25. BR-163 opens between Cuiaba and Santarem
26. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
27. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
28. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
29. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
30. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
31. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
32. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
33. INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
34. Amazon Deforestation
35. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
36. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
37. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
38. PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
39. INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data
40. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
41. Evidence
42. Supports the existence, method and shape of the annual clear-cut deforestation series for the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 1988 onward. V55 verification basis: the TerraBrasilis portal was probed in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED; no annual value was retrieved. Every specific PRODES figure referred to in this pack is described as commonly reported and flagged as unchecked in the record that mentions it.