The Brazilian government revealed today that it plans to stop deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, by strengthening law enforcement against environmental crimes and implementing other measures in the world's largest tropical rainforest. Under the previous right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil joined a joint agreement with over 140 countries in 2021 to halt global deforestation by 2030. The leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office on January 1, has made this a top priority of his environmental policy.
The action plan to combat deforestation in the Amazon outlines a coordinated policy across more than a dozen ministries until the end of Lula's term in 2027. The plan calls for enhancing the use of intelligence information and satellite imagery to track criminal activity, regulating land ownership documents, and employing a rural registry to monitor the proper management of forests, which play a critical role in slowing global climate change. Among the measures to be taken, authorities will match and review information from the financial system with the rural registry and other databases, along with satellite images, to prevent illegal logging and cattle ranching.
