Increase in protection of priority biodiversity areas

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Increase in protection of priority biodiversity
areas
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Bottom line

• Trading has the potential to substantially reduce
  costs of achieving aggregate conservation
  objective
• Bigger trading domains reduce compliance cost,
  improve biodiversity protection
• But is it implementable?

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RL enforcement and trading in Brazil current
situation

• Trading allowed by Provisional Law 2166
  (preferably within microbasin, basin possibly
  also compensate by purchasing gazetted for parks)
• SISLEG, Parana early stages of implementation
• Mato Grosso Innovative RL enforcement program

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Trading Domains in Parana Biome-Basin combination
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FEMA (Mato Grosso) System of Environmental
Licensing and Control
Credit FEMA
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Generalizability?

• Within Brazil
• Outside Brazil introduce tradeable obligations
  as a substitute for existing strict regulations
  on forest clearance?

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