Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT)/Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (1978-present)(a)
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Promote the development of the Amazon region among the eight member countries, in a harmonious manner, with egalitarian results while preserving the region's environment and natural resources. |
Eight Amazonian countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela), high-level diplomatic representatives of the member states, and national partnership institutions. |
Promote the development of the Amazon region in a harmonious manner, with egalitarian results, while preserving the region's environment and natural resources, strengthening regional cooperation in the fields of scientific research and technoloogy to promote economic and social development. |
Association of Amazonian Universities (UNAMAZ) (1987-present) |
Critical and multidisciplinary analysis of the Amazonian reality to offer alternatives to the region's problems. It has served as the input for the creation of the Amazonian Information System. |
Higher education and research institutions. |
Catalyzation of the actions of higher education and research institutions for a critical and multidisciplinary critique of the Amazon reality to offer alternatives to the region's problems. |
Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest (RF-PPG7) (1992-2009) |
Reducing deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest, preserving biodiversity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting sustainable development and international cooperation. |
The Brazilian government, the international community (G7 nations, the European Union, and the Low Countries), the World Bank, the Ministry of the Environment, donors, NGOs, and the International Advisory Group (IAG). |
Actions along five main axes: experimentation and demonstration; conservation of protected areas, strengthening of institutions; science and technology for sustainable development; and the dissemination of knowledge. |
Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (Arpa) (2002-present) |
Permanent conservation and protection of 232,000 square miles or 15% of the Brazilian Amazon, through the creation, expansion and strengthening of conservation units. |
The Brazilian federal government, state governmental bodies, private institutions, civil society, the management bodies of the program (ICMBio for the federal conservation units, state governmental bodies for the state conservation units) and various donors such as the World Bank and the WWF, among others. |
Conserve and protect the Brazilian Amazon, ensuring that there are financial resources to manage and maintain the conservation units, promoting sustainable development, and gradually increasing the resources provided by governments to the Arpa. |
Amazon Fund (2008-present)(b)
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Fundraising for non-reimbursable investments for the prevention, monitoring, and fight against deforestation, promoting the conservation and sustainable use of the Legal Amazon, in addition to supporting the development of systems to monitor and control deforestation in Brazil and other tropical countries. |
The Norwegian and German governments, Petrobras, National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES), members of the federal and state governments, civil society, and specialists. |
Decrease deforestation, contributing to the reduction of greehouse gases, and ecouraging Brazil and other developing countries in the Amazon region to adopt measures to decrease deforestation. |
Amazon Bioeconomy Fund (2021-present) |
Support for projects and initiatives to create sustainable development models based on the human capital, the natural resources, and the cultural heritage of the countries of the Amazon. The fund is focused on four main priorities: the bioeconomy, the sustainable development of agriculture, livestock and forests, human capital, and sustainable infrastructure. |
Amazonian counstries, the Inter-America Development Bank (IDB), and the ACTO. |
Attract more sustainable investments in the Amazon region and promote a greater level of coordination on all levels, seeking economic development, social benefits, and promoting the valorization of the natural capital of the Amazon. |