{"id":49830,"date":"2024-01-10T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49830"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:03:12","slug":"germany-and-us-warn-brazil-against-using-amazon-fund-to-pave-rainforest-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/germany-and-us-warn-brazil-against-using-amazon-fund-to-pave-rainforest-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and US warn Brazil against using Amazon Fund to pave rainforest road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Western donors to the Amazon Fund have warned against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/26\/brazil-amazon-fund-rainforest-road-deforestation-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazilian government&#8217;s plans<\/a> to use it to pave a major road in the rainforest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the German government, the fund&#8217;s second-biggest donor, told Climate Home that support for such a project \u201cis not possible\u201d according to the rules of the fund, which was specifically set up to reduce forest destruction in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is \u201cconfident\u201d the fund will use its resources \u201cconsistent with its governing regulations\u201d, a US State Department spokesperson told Climate Home.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists fear the project would trigger an explosion in forest destruction by giving illegal loggers easier access to remote areas of the rainforest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/09\/first-ever-paris-agreement-offsets-face-integrity-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>First ever Paris Agreement<\/strong> offsets face integrity questions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Investment in large-scale infrastructure projects is not listed among the target actions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/faolex.fao.org\/docs\/pdf\/bra136583.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2008 presidential decree<\/a> that established how the fund should spend its money.<\/p>\n<p>But officials in the Lula administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/26\/brazil-amazon-fund-rainforest-road-deforestation-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">want to tap<\/a> the green funds for the paving of the 900-kilometre long BR-319 highway, cutting through the rainforest and connecting Manaus and Porto Velho.<\/p>\n<p>The lower house of the Brazilian Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/12\/21\/brazil-lawmakers-approve-using-green-fund-to-pave-road-through-amazon-rainforest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> last December in favour of a bill that would allow for the use of conservation funds to finance public works aimed at \u201crecovering, paving and increasing the capacity\u201d of the road. The bill needs Senate approval before becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>The German government said it &#8220;is observing the developments closely&#8221;. A spokesperson added that, if the bill was conclusively approved, the German government would affirm to the Amazon Fund&#8217;s managers that its resources cannot be used to pave the road.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Tremendous consequences&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10661-023-11820-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> every major highway project in the Amazon has set off a surge in land grabbing and illegal deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Fearnside, a scientist at the National Institute for Amazonian Research in Manaus, told Climate Home &#8220;the consequences would be tremendous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added that trees would not only be cleared on the roadside, but the project would create an interconnected network of major roads giving deforesters access to a much larger area.<\/p>\n<p>Built in the 1970s by a military government, the BR-319 was abandoned a decade later due to a lack of maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Since disintegrated into a dirt road, much of the route is now impassable during the rainy season. Vehicles that attempt it during dry months crawl along the broken pavement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49833\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/germany-and-us-warn-brazil-against-using-amazon-fund-to-pave-rainforest-road\/olympus-digital-camera-45\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49833\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/Amazonas_BR319c.jpeg\" alt=\"BR 319 Amazonas Brazil\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/10171932\/Amazonas_BR319c.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/10171932\/Amazonas_BR319c-292x168.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/10171932\/Amazonas_BR319c-585x337.jpeg 585w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/10171932\/Amazonas_BR319c-768x443.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of BR-319 in the Amazonas state of Brazil. Photo: Agencia CNT de Noticias<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brazilian government has been sketching out plans to restore the highway on economic and social development grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The transport minister, Renan Filho, <a href=\"https:\/\/climainfo.org.br\/2023\/08\/18\/recursos-do-fundo-amazonia-podem-parar-na-br-319-que-corta-a-floresta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last August that he was planning to pitch the Amazon Fund\u2019s governing board a project to pave the road.<\/p>\n<p>This would turn the road into the world\u2019s \u201cmost sustainable highway\u201d and would allow easier access for police patrols to monitor and prevent deforestation, the ministry argued.<\/p>\n<p>But environmentalists argued that this is not the kind of project that the fund is meant to support. One of the fund\u2019s creators, forest scientist Tasso Azevedo said the project \u201cdoes not fit into any of the fund\u2019s planned support lines\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Amazon Fund revived<\/h3>\n<p>Created in 2008, the Amazon Fund has over $1.2 billion available for projects that prevent, monitor and combat deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The fund&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonfund.gov.br\/en\/transparency\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest donors<\/a> are Norway, Germany, the US, Switzerland and state-owned oil company Petrobras.<\/p>\n<p>They have promised to inject an extra $800 million into the fund since President Lula <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/01\/04\/first-day-office-lula-revives-1-billion-fund-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revived<\/a> the mechanism on his first day in office in 2023 after three years of inactivity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/a-la-carte-menu-saudi-minister-claims-cop28-fossil-fuel-agreement-is-only-optional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cA la carte menu\u201d<\/strong>: Saudi minister claims Cop28 fossil fuel agreement is only optional<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Western donors had stopped money transfers in 2019, under the previous government of Jair Bolsonaro, after the former president unilaterally suspended the board of directors and the technical committee of the fund.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) manages the fund and decides how to allocate its resources.<\/p>\n<p>Last September it told Climate Home that any requests are processed \u201cin accordance with the strategic vision, guidelines and focuses\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundoamazonia.gov.br\/export\/sites\/default\/pt\/.galleries\/documentos\/Visao_Estrategica.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlined<\/a> in the 2023-25 \u200b\u200bBiennium, a new set of guidelines created by the Amazon Fund\u2019s Guiding Committee. It has not replied to further requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Donors sceptical over plans<\/h3>\n<p>A spokesperson for Germany&#8217;s Ministry for cooperation and development, said the use of Amazon Fund resources &#8220;is clearly defined and restricted&#8221; by the presidential decree underpinning the fund&#8217;s creation. &#8220;Based on these rules and regulations, the use of financial resources for paving a road through the rainforest is not possible&#8221;, they added.<\/p>\n<p>A US State Department spokesperson said they &#8220;are confident&#8221; the BNDES will use the fund\u2019s resources &#8220;consistent with its governing regulations and Brazil\u2019s public commitment to cease all deforestation in the Legal Amazon by 2030&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/03\/brazil-cracks-down-on-gold-miners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brazil cracks down<\/strong> on illegal gold miners<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Norwegian embassy in Brazil said it is for the Brazilian government through BNDES to decide on the specific use of the resources in the Amazon Fund. &#8220;The Norwegian Government has no say in the selection of projects&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian government controls BNDES and appoints its head. &#8220;It is not an independent institution and the government has put pressure on its decisions in the past&#8221;, says Fearnside. &#8220;It just depends on how high a priority the project is for the government. The indication is that, except for the Ministry of Environment, the rest of the government is in favour of this highway&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Fast-tracking process<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, a group of parliamentarians from the Amazon regions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camara.leg.br\/proposicoesWeb\/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2395883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought a new bill<\/a> to Congress aiming to fast-track the construction project.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The text, approved under a special \u2018urgency\u2019 procedure, calls the highway \u201ccritical infrastructure, indispensable to national security\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bill would authorize the use of donations received by Brazil to help conservation of the Amazon for the repair works on BR-319.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We want a road that gives us the right to go back and forth, to transport goods, to buy food. This is the only highway in Brazil that is not paved, we cannot treat people from the North as second-class citizens&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/exame.com\/brasil\/ibama-discorda-mas-camara-aprova-pl-para-asfaltar-rodovia-entre-am-e-ro-com-verba-do-fundo-amazonia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Alberto Neto, the author of the bill, after its approval in the lower chamber.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The article was updated on 11\/01 to add a comment received after publication<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brazilian government wants to tap forest protection funds to pave a major highway. Western donors say that goes against the fund&#8217;s rules. 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