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ARPA is considered the biggest conservation program of its kind, successfully leveraging cross-sector support through a financing model that has inspired similar projects around the world, and delivered tangible outcomes on the Amazon forest conservation. The fund guarantees donations over the long term with a clearly defined scope, offering more stability to the implementation of the program.

“Investments indeed translated into a reduction of deforestation and reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from deforestation,” said Britaldo Soares, an associate researcher at the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and lead author of a paper that analyzes ARPA‘s impact on forest conservation.

Soares and researchers from WWF and FUNBIO found that deforestation between 2008 and 2020 was between 9% and 39% lower in Amazonian protected areas benefiting from ARPA support, and that this helped avoid 104 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.

For Júlio Barbosa, a resident of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, ARPA has been important not just for creating conservation areas and infrastructure to support them, but also for strengthening local organizations, like cooperatives and deliberative councils.

ARPA focuses on traditional communities living within sustainable-use reserves, rather than Indigenous populations on Indigenous land, which are protected under different legislation. But the program also supports Indigenous populations who may live within the protected areas it targets and could even bring indirect benefits to other conservation areas, including Indigenous territories, as it helps maintain forest cover across the Amazon.

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ARPA is considered the biggest conservation program of its kind, successfully leveraging cross-sector support through a financing model that has inspired similar projects around the world, and delivered tangible outcomes on the Amazon forest conservation. The fund guarantees donations over the long term with a clearly defined scope, offering more stability to the implementation of the program.

“Investments indeed translated into a reduction of deforestation and reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from deforestation,” said Britaldo Soares, an associate researcher at the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and lead author of a paper that analyzes ARPA‘s impact on forest conservation.

Soares and researchers from WWF and FUNBIO found that deforestation between 2008 and 2020 was between 9% and 39% lower in Amazonian protected areas benefiting from ARPA support, and that this helped avoid 104 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.

For Júlio Barbosa, a resident of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, ARPA has been important not just for creating conservation areas and infrastructure to support them, but also for strengthening local organizations, like cooperatives and deliberative councils.

ARPA focuses on traditional communities living within sustainable-use reserves, rather than Indigenous populations on Indigenous land, which are protected under different legislation. But the program also supports Indigenous populations who may live within the protected areas it targets and could even bring indirect benefits to other conservation areas, including Indigenous territories, as it helps maintain forest cover across the Amazon.

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ARPA is considered the biggest conservation program of its kind, successfully leveraging cross-sector support through a financing model that has inspired similar projects around the world, and delivered tangible outcomes on the Amazon forest conservation. The fund guarantees donations over the long term with a clearly defined scope, offering more stability to the implementation of the program.

“Investments indeed translated into a reduction of deforestation and reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from deforestation,” said Britaldo Soares, an associate researcher at the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and lead author of a paper that analyzes ARPA‘s impact on forest conservation.

Soares and researchers from WWF and FUNBIO found that deforestation between 2008 and 2020 was between 9% and 39% lower in Amazonian protected areas benefiting from ARPA support, and that this helped avoid 104 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.

For Júlio Barbosa, a resident of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, ARPA has been important not just for creating conservation areas and infrastructure to support them, but also for strengthening local organizations, like cooperatives and deliberative councils.

ARPA focuses on traditional communities living within sustainable-use reserves, rather than Indigenous populations on Indigenous land, which are protected under different legislation. But the program also supports Indigenous populations who may live within the protected areas it targets and could even bring indirect benefits to other conservation areas, including Indigenous territories, as it helps maintain forest cover across the Amazon.

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A 30.ª Conferência do Clima da ONU (COP 30), realizada em Belém – PA, em novembro de 2025, teve como eixo central a implementação dos objetivos do Acordo de Paris. Sob a presidência brasileira, 195 países aprovaram por consenso o “Pacote de Belém” — 29 decisões que renovaram compromissos em temas como transição justa, financiamento da adaptação, gênero e tecnologia.

O presidente da COP 30, André Corrêa do Lago, ressaltou, em seu discurso de encerramento, que o momento em Belém “não deve ser lembrado como o fim de uma conferência, mas como o início de uma década de mudança”. Em meio a um clima político tenso — com intensos debates sobre o futuro dos combustíveis fósseis e pressões de nações produtoras — ficou evidente que o foco brasileiro foi integrar agendas ambientais, sociais e econômicas. Desde o início, representantes brasileiros destacaram que “a proteção de florestas, oceanos e territórios indígenas não é apenas conservação — é estratégia climática global”, que une justiça social, inclusão de comunidades tradicionais e combate às mudanças climáticas em uma mesma agenda.

Essa ênfase se refletiu em anúncios concretos: no Dia dos Povos Indígenas, o governo do Brasil demarcou dez novas terras indígenas, ampliando áreas protegidas e fortalecendo a mitigação de emissões.

Por outro lado, o impasse negociador levou o presidente da COP a assumir compromissos paralelos, como a promessa de elaborar, nos próximos 12 meses, “dois mapas do caminho”: um para frear e reverter o desmatamento e outro para afastar gradativamente os combustíveis fósseis. Esses temas, embora apoiados por muitos países, não foram incorporados ao texto final por falta de unanimidade. Em suma, a COP 30 selou avanços significativos em implementação — da cooperação internacional à justiça climática — ao mesmo tempo em que assumiu a tarefa de manter a pressão política sobre os pontos pendentes.

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