New TNC at a glance:

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New TNC at a glance structure
01 Division Officer Joseph Keenan (Rio de Janeiro)

• 04 Directors of Operating Units
• Amazon David Cleary (Belem)

• 04 Country Representatives
• Brazil Ana Cristina Barros (Brasilia)

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New TNC at a glance Portfolio in Brazil
Known by

• Protected areas (sites) public and private
• Flag species
• Carbon sequestration (other financing mechanisms)
• Supporting local NGOs
• Protected areas improving national system
• Strategic partnerships with powerfull NGOs and
  networks
• Indigenous lands
• Green Highways
• Forest restoration/forest code (landscape
  approach)
• Best practices in agriculture and ranching
• Track and influence international policy (World
  Bank Group,
• UN, bilaterals)

Also deals with
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Policy influencing as a conservation tool
Inputs for the Amazon
Scenarios Group
Ana Cristina Barros The Nature
Conservancy in Brazil
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Presentation guidance
Defining outputs (the dealers perspective)
Integration (enlarging the group of users and
defining strategies)
Talking to policy makers (gov. and civil soc.
languages)
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Defining outputs

• - Scenarios warning system
• - Modeling proposal (how the desirable
  scenario looks like)
• Protected areas
• Indigenous Lands
• Large scale agriculture lands
• Subsistence agriculture lands
• Logging areas
• Timber processing poles

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Defining outputs

• Geographic distribution of different land
  uses and impacts,
• plus
• socio-economic indicators (for the
  negotiation table)
• Total area
• Total production
• Income generation
• Taxes generation
• Job generation

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Integrating with on going initiatives

• Federal level initiatives
• Amazon
• Previous modeling arrangements
• - GEOMA official working group for modeling
  frontier expansion in the Amazon (Ministry of
  Science and Technology)
• Br-163
• Licensing process (Ministry of Transports)
• Reducing deforestation working group (Ministry
  of National Integration)
• Criteria for public financing (Ministry of
  Planning and Budget. National/International
  Banks)
• - ARPA Amazon Region Protected Areas

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Integrating with on going initiatives

• State level initiatives
• - World Bank loan to Para State
• Land Titling Agency ITERPA (forestry
  concessions)
• Workers party planning process for the West of
  Para
• Sociedade civil
• Latin American GIS group (Rede SIG)
• Conservation International (protected area
  proposal)
• (ISA-IPAM), GreenPeace, FVVP/MDTX (Terra do
  Meio)
• Transamazon development proposal (FVVP/MDTX)
• Greenpeace (watch dog)

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Integrating with on going initiatives

• Private sector
• IFC loan to AMaggi (big soybean producer/export)
• Other Ag corporations landing in Santarem
  (BUNGE, CARGILL)

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Integrating with on going initiatives
Integrating means - becoming a stakeholder -
consolidating trust (scientific, moral and
political) - incorporating layers of
information - anticipating expected results -
fine tuning with (real) policy making - setting
different strategies (recognition, mobilization,
warning-pressure, negotiation,...)
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Speaking with the government Understanding gov.
language
National Budget (2004 2007) for Br-163
Total budget (Aug. 2003)
BNDES
BRA Treasure
Public-Private- Partnership
US 253.000.000
US 105.000.000
US 5.500.000
US 105.000.000
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EIA/RIMA zoning proposal
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Talking to the governmentUnderstanding gov.
language

• An open window
• Clear request from a gov. representative
• for a zoning proposal for Br-163 by December 1st.

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Talking to the governmentUnderstanding gov.
language

Government
Science based proposals
Non-local, highly policy oriented NGOs
Social movements/local groups
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Speaking with the governmentplaying with civil
society

• Policy making negotiation interactivity
• Model
• tool
• continuous updating
• variety of scenarios
• handled locally by a group with political
  density
• (scientific density as the soul)

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Conclusions
Defining outputs warning msgs proposal
Integration craft a strategy for each parallel
and or completing initiative
Talking to policy makers engaging in government
and civil society processes