Praised by Salles, Floresta+ initiative has yet to take off

Anounced wrongfully as “the largest payment for environmental services program in the world today”, the Floresta+ initiative, launched by the federal government in July 2020, still hasn’t got off the ground, as reported by the environmentalist portal Fakebook Eco. The payment to those who protect the forest - such as small farmers, indigenous peoples and traditional communities -, has not yet been carried out, since the public calls for the selection of beneficiaries have not been held.

The project was approved by the UN climate fund in 2019, at the beginning of the Bolsonaro administration, and obtained about R$ 500 million reais from the Green Climate Fund, in negotiations initiated by the Temer administration in 2018 - resources obtained for results in reducing deforestation in 2014 and 2015, in Dilma Rousseff administration.