The Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) of the Federal Senate approved at the end of November a bill that regulates the Brazilian Market for Reducing Emissions (MBRE) of gases that cause the greenhouse effect. PL 412/2022 went to the Environment Commission.

The MBRE will be operated on commodity and futures exchanges, stock exchanges and over-the-counter entities, authorized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), where securities representing certified greenhouse gas emissions avoided will be traded.

An amendment accepted in the PL makes it clear that agricultural and forestry activities are not part of the regulated market, being liable to generate verified emission removals (RVE) in the voluntary market. The text, however, encourages low-carbon agriculture practices, the conservation and restoration of native vegetation and the recovery of degraded areas and the establishment of emission targets in line with the sectorial mitigation and adaptation plans established based on the Policy National on Climate Change.

A tool developed by Embrapa Florestas (PR) in partnership with the Associação Paranaense de Empresas de Base Florestal (Apre) enables access, organization and processing of databases on the forestry sector.

The methodology uses different secondary data repositories. The information comes from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Production of Plant Extraction and Silviculture, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (PEVS-IBGE); Gross Domestic Product of Municipalities (IBGE); Annual List of Social Information – Rais (MTP); Foreign Trade Statistics (Comex Stat); Yearbooks of the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá); and the Gross Value of Agricultural Production, from the Department of Rural Economy, from the Secretary of Agriculture and Supply of Paraná (Deral/Seab).

“The methodology will allow for a better diagnosis of the sector, aiming at forestry planning on a regional and national scale, including municipal detailing depending on the availability of information”, declares José Mauro Paz Moreira, Embrapa researcher and one of the creators of the work.

The “Methodology for accessing and analyzing data from the Brazilian productive chain of planted forests” uses a set of computerized procedures based on routines developed in R, a statistical and graphical programming language with open and free access.

The rate of the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) in transactions involving wood chips in Mato Grosso do Sul, which was 17%, is no longer charged.

According to the Secretary of State for Production, Environment, Economic Development and Family Agriculture (Semagro), Jaime Verruck, the measure accompanies the evolution of the productive chain of forests, which should receive in the coming years, only for the pulp segment, investments of more than R$ 34 billion in cellulose. “We modernized the chain, we made the chip chain in Mato Grosso do Sul competitive. We have a series of companies today that make the chips and supply them. So they take the eucalyptus, make the chips and supply them to the entire production chain”, he explained. .

The executive director of Reflore-MS, Benedito Mário Lázaro, says that there was a very big difficulty, as the ICMS rate made the production and sale of wood chips economically unfeasible. The change comes as a great incentive, as there are many companies using the raw material in boilers as fuel. “This is already a request that we have been making for some time so that we could make the chain more competitive and attract new companies that provide this service”, he concludes.

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