Brazil's Experience with Payments for Environmental Services

Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short period, an extraordinarily rich range of experiences has developed, with examples of the application of PES at a variety of scales, ranging from microwatersheds to entire states; in a variety of contexts, from remote forest frontier areas to the periurban fringe of megacities like São Paulo; and using a variety of approaches, using direct payments by users, sales to regulated and voluntary carbon markets, government funding, and mixes of these approaches. In this paper, we provide an overview of Brazilian PES efforts to date, and attempt to extract some initial lessons.

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Main Authors:	Pagiola, Stefano, Carrascosa von Glehn, Helena, Taffarello, Denise
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-08-01
Subjects:	AFFORESTATION, APPROPRIATIONS, ATLANTIC FOREST, BASIN, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, CARBON, CARBON CREDITS, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON MARKET, CARBON MARKETS, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CARBON SERVICES, CHANGES IN LAND USE, CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, COLORS, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, CONDITIONALITY, DEFORESTATION, DEGRADED FOREST, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, ECONOMISTS, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION, ECOSYSTEMS, EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST, ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, EXTERNALITIES, FARMERS, FARMS, FOREST, FOREST CARBON, FOREST CLEARING, FOREST CONSERVATION, FOREST FRONTIER, FOREST LAW, FOREST PRODUCTS, FOREST PROTECTION, FOREST RESERVE, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FOSSIL FUELS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GOLD, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND USE, LAND USE DECISIONS, LAND USERS, LAND USES, LAND-USE, LANDSCAPE, MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES, MUNICIPAL WATER, OPPORTUNITY COSTS, PP, PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE, PROGRAMS, REDUCING EMISSIONS, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, RIPARIAN, SEDIMENT, SOCIAL COSTS, SOILS, SPRING, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION, TIMBER, TRANSACTION COSTS, WATER CHARGES, WATER FEES, WATER LEGISLATION, WATER QUALITY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/19304132/brazils-experience-payments-environmental-services https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17854
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