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The new Brazilian Forest Code: Call for a truce and for a focus on implementation

Author: Pedro Moura Costa In 2012 the new Brazilian Forest Code (Forest Law 12.651) was adopted after a long and exhausting political process. Like most existing laws in Brazil, the Forest Code is not perfect. Consequently, a series of demands for changes and alterations have been raised by, on one side, rural landowners and agribusiness, […]

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