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Green Municipality Programs: Activities and Results 2013 Green Municipality Programs Activities and Results 2013 Production Communications Office – ASCOM/PMV Texts Raphael Pacheco Text Editing and Revisions Ana Lúcia Muniz, Justiniano Netto and Marussia Whately Photos Diego Andrade, Marussia Whately and Raphael Pacheco Editorial Design Ana Cristina Silveira / AnaCê Design Financial Support Institute of People and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon) and Climate and Land Use Organization (Clua) – Clua Imazon Project Special Secretariat for Coordinating the Green Municipality Programs – SEPMV Team Alessandra Zagallo (SEPMV/Cabinet Adviser), Ana Lúcia Muniz (SEPMV/ Environmental and Land Planning Adviser), Bruno Marianno (Imazon Consultant/ Support for PMV), Camilla Miranda (SEPMV/Institutional Articulation Coordinator), Denys Pereira (SEPMV/ Sustainable Production Coordinator), Felipe Lopes (SEPMV/Legal Coordinator), Gustavo Furini (SEPMV/Environmental and Land Planning Coordinator), Julianna Marruás (SEPMV/Head of Cabinet), Julianne Moutinho (SEPMV/Environmental Management Coordinator), Justiniano de Queiroz Netto (SEPMV/Special Secretary), Maíra Começanha (SEPMV/Budget Coordinator), Marussia Whately (Imazon Consultant Imazon/ Support for PMV), Raimundo Amaral Jr. (SEPMV/Institutional Articulation Adviser), Raphael Pacheco (SEPMV/Communications Adviser). Activities and Results 2013 he Green Municipality Programs (PMV) is a Pará State Govern- ment program, launched in 2011 and developed in partnership with Tmunicipalities, civil society, private enterprise, Ibama, and Federal and State Public Prosecution Services, for the purpose of fi ghting defor- estation and strengthening sustainable production through strategic actions in environmental and land title planning, and environmental management, with a focus on local pacts, monitoring of deforestation, implanting the Ru- ral Environmental Registry (CAR) and structuring municipal management. The Program has some principal goals: a) Reduce deforestation until reaching zero net deforestation1, by 2020; b) Remove all Pará municipalities from the list of largest deforesters in the Amazon prepared by the Ministry of the Environment; c) Increase the properties recorded in the Rural Environmental Registry – CAR, reaching 80% of the recordable area in the State by 2015; d) Engage at least 100 municipalities in the Programby the end of 2014. Since being created, the PMV has achieved signifi cantly positive re- sults. The year 2013 was the stage for several actions contributing to this. We may note: 1 Zero net deforestation pressuposes that the forest restoration process will be equal to or less than the deforestation existing in the State. http://municipiosverdes.com.br/ 3 Activities and Results 2013 1. Leaving the list of deforesters In 2013, two Pará municipalities were removed from the list maintained by the Ministry of the Environment: Tailândia and Brasil Novo, who met the criteria for removal (reduction of deforestation and increase with CAR) and began to be considered municipalities with deforestation monitored and under control. The two municipalities now join Santana do Araguaia, Ulianópolis and Dom Eliseu – who left in 2012 – and Paragominas, which was the fi rst to leave, in 2010. With these six municipalities, Pará is the Bra- zilian state that has removed the most municipalities from the MMA list. With the departure of Tailândia and Brasil Novo and no new entry in 2013, the State has 13 municipalities embargoed, fi ve of them with major chances of leaving the list in 2014 because they presented deforestation below 40 km² and a signifi cant part of their territories registered with CAR. They are: Santa Maria das Barreiras, Rondon do Pará, Pacajá, Anapú and Moju. Secretary Justiniano Netto and Brasil Novo Mayor Marina Sperotto sign the pact for sustainability. 4 http://municipiosverdes.com.br/ Activities and Results 2013 Belém mayor Zenaldo Coutinho signs the the agreement in which the Pará state capital adheres to the PMV during the 9th meeting of Coges. 2. Adherence and Local pacts Anticipating the goal set for 2014, the PMV passed the mark of 100 mu- nicipalities in 2013, and closed out the year with a mark of 102 municipal- ities. There were nine municipalities joining in 2013: Barcarena, Bragança, Belém, Capitão Poço, Ourém, São Sebastião da Boa Vista, Terra Alta, Mo- juí dos Campos and Cachoeira do Arari. After adhering to the PMV, one of the goals that the municipalities need to meet is to achieve a local pact against deforestation, a moment when representatives of civil society, rural producers and various entities assume a public commitment to fi ght deforestation and promoted deforestation sus- tainable development in their territory. In 2013, fi ve municipalities signed local pacts with participation by the PMV: Brasil Novo, Ourém, Moju, San- tarém and Terra Alta. http://municipiosverdes.com.br/ 5 Activities and Results 2013 3. Rural Environmental Registry In 2013, Pará placed 36,982 thousand rural properties in the Rural Envi- ronmental Registry (CAR), which corresponds to a 54.3% increase in rela- tion to the number of properties registered in 2012. At the end of 2013, Pará already had more than 105 thousand rural properties registered, while at the end of 2012, that number was slightly over 68 thousand properties. With regard to the area registered, the advance represented 1.5 million hectares and reached a total of 35.2 million, which represents slightly more than 60% of the registerable area in the State. The numbers demonstrate that CAR is increasingly reaching small rural producers and family farmers who have properties with areas of up to 4 fi scal modules. Sema, Emater, Rural Pará Program, Ministry of the Envi- ronment and several other institutions have united their efforts to promote CAR with small producers. One good example was the work developed during the last quarter of 2013 in the municipalities of Moju and Tailândia, through the Rural Pará Program with funds from the World Bank, which did more than one thousand fi ve hundred registrations with small produc- ers who had areas of up to 300 hectares. Evolution of CAR in the State of Pará Number of Rural Properties Area Placed in CAR (ha) 120.000 40.000.000 100.000 35.000.000 30.000.000 80.000 25.000.000 60.000 20.000.000 15.000.000 40.000 10.000.000 20.000 5.000.000 0 0 Até 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Até 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 6 http://municipiosverdes.com.br/ Activities and Results 2013 4. State campaign for encouraging CAR and ghting deforestation The State Government through PMV launched the State Campaign Against Deforestation in 2013 with the slogan “Produce without Deforesting. Start seeing this as good business,” for the purpose of raising awareness among rural producers on the advantages of environmental adjustment. Besides sensi- tizing producers regarding the disadvantages of illegal deforestation, the cam- paign focused on promoting adhesion of rural producers with the Rural Envi- ronmental Registry (CAR), a tool that is the fi rst step towards environmental regularization or adjustment. With CAR, municipal and state governments will be able to support licensing and environmental regularity, as well as enabling concession of rural credit, improving productivity, beginning land title regular- ization and providing access to new markets. The Campaign was launched in Belém in May 2013 and run throughout the State. The PMV traveled throughout a number of municipalities during the year, taking the message and materials from the campaign to local producers and managers. Events were held in the municipalities of Altamira, Brasil Novo, Novo Progresso and Santarém, and throughout the entire southern part of Pará, in the municipalities of Tucumã, São Félix do Xingu, Ourilândia do Norte, Água Azul do Norte, Rio Maria, Xinguara, Sapucaia, Eldorado dos Carajás and Marabá, through the Production Caravan, which brought together state secretaries and government technicians in visiting the municipalities. Placards produced for the Campaign, which visited several municipalities in the State, promoting registration with CAR and the fi ght against deforestation. 7 Activities and Results 2013 An exclusive site was launched to disseminate important information related to the campaign: www.car.pa.gov.br. 5. ICMS (sales tax) as a tool for ghting deforestation In June 2013 Pará launched the Green ICMS that included the environmental variable for transferring the state tax to Pará municipalities. The Pará Govern- ment innovated in choosing criteria for defi ning the amounts to be transferred and established the following indicators: 1. reduction in as deforestation rates (weight of 25% of the transfer); 2. percentage of protected areas in municipal territory (weight of 25% of the transfer); 3. and percentage of municipal area registered with CAR (weight of 50% of the transfer). In 2014, it is estimated that around 35 million Reals will be transferred to the municipalities through the Green ICMS, which represents 2% of the total transfer of transfer ICMS. Since the Green ICMS is progressive, its share of the total ICMS is cumulative, so that in 2017 it will be 8% of the Total ICMS, reaching an amount estimated at R$ 140 million reals for transfer. 6. Important Decrees In 2013 Governor Simão Jatene signed some important decrees that fa- cilitate a series of incentives for producers and also for Pará municipalities that are part of the PMV, including Decree 739, which creates a special process for land