About AMAZALERT
AMAZALERT examined how global and regional climate and land-use changes will impact Amazonian forests, agriculture, waters, and people; and how these impacts feed back onto climate.
“The AMAZALERT project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 282664, and was co-funded by many national agencies an institutes.”
European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 2013
A one-day stakeholder workshop was organised in Brussels on 11 December 2013. It brought together a number of key researchers from the AMAZALERT project, Brazilian stakeholders, and European decision makers and other stakeholders. The workshop had two main objectives. Firstly, dissemination of ongoing work in AMAZALERT by presenting and discussing an overview of the main results of the project. Second, list and discuss European policies by assessing the current situation of policies and other initiatives in Europe to stop deforestation in the Amazon and discussing possible policies and other actions that could be successful under various scenarios. On this page, there are links to the main presentations that were given during the workshop and to a report that describes the methods and results of the workshop.
Presentations
- AMAZALERT Introduction for the European Commission: 'Raising the alert on critical transitions in the Amazon'
Introduction AMAZALERT ''Raising the alert on critical transitions in the Amazon, Vulnerability of the Amazon ecosystem services to climate change and deforestation' by Bart Kruijt for the European Commission at December 11, 2013.
- AMAZALERT European workshop. Welcome and objectives
Overview of objectives, agenda, and introduction to presenters, presented at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Kasper Kok.
- Land use change scenarios for the Amazon
Results of the first workshop in Belem and CLUE model runs at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Kasper Kok and Ana Paula Aguiar.
- Scenarios: concepts and background
Overview of the main types of scenarios with a focus on backcasting and normative scenarios, presented at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Kasper Kok.
- Brazilian Amazon: challenges and strategies to continuous decreasing deforestation
An overview of data, drivers, and solutions related to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, presented at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Arnaldo Carneiro.
- Brazilian Public Policies Affecting the Amazon
Overview of the most important public policies in Brazil that influence land use change and deforestation at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Mateus Batistella, Director, EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Brazil.
- EU policies and initiatives potentially affecting land use in the Amazon
Overview of the most important EU policies and initiatives that influence land use change and deforestation, presented at the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Dorian Frieden.
Workshop report
- Workshop Report: European Workshop on the future of the Amazon
Final report of the methods and results of the European Workshop on the future of the Amazon, December 11, 2013, by Kasper Kok.