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Brazil to recover 1.4mn ha of degraded land by 2027

  • Märkte: Agriculture, Emissions
  • 08.08.25

Brazil's finance, environment and agriculture ministries secured resources to recover 1.4mn hectares (ha) of degraded lands in all Brazilian biomes, except the Amazon.

Total investments may reach R31.4bn ($5.74bn) in private and public credits from 11 institutions, who earned participation rights through an auction process, according to the government. Resources will be granted throughout 2025-27 to reinforce energy transition, biodiversity and food safety agendas, as part of a wider federal target to recover 40mn ha in the next 10 years.

The auction was part of Eco Invest, a currency-hedging program targeting renewable and low-carbon projects to draw foreign investment, announced in February 2024. The finance ministry and central bank developed the program with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. The initiative is part of New Brazil, a wider energy transition project within the finance ministry.

Brazil will host another auction specifically for the Amazon biome in the second half. The government plans to draw funds to projects under the Legal Amazon division, a region that covers nine northern states along the Amazon biome and basin, equivalent to 61pc of Brazil's territory.

Emissions from land-use change and deforestation in Brazil reached 1.06bn metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2023, down by 24pc from a year earlier, according to greenhouse gas tracking platform Seeg.

Brazil aims to reduce its total greenhouse gas emissions by 67pc by 2035 from its 2005 levels and sees reducing deforestation as one of its main ways to achieve that goal.


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