A legal move articulated by former Ibama president Suely Araújo may allow the Union to charge 18 landowners in the Amazon a financial compensation of US$ 47 million for “”climate damage”” caused by deforestation on their land.
Together, the defendants named in the lawsuits were responsible for illegally cutting down more than 14,000 hectares of forest between 2004 and 2017, which caused the emission of more than 10 million tons of CO2. The farmers, who own areas in Pará and Amazonas, have already been sued in the civil sphere by the Attorney General’s Office (AGU), which articulated a partnership with Ibama in 2018 to collect another US$ 68 million for non-climatic environmental damages. .
The process takes into account the price per ton of carbon at which Brazil was compensated within the Amazon Fund (equivalent to US$ 5 per ton of CO2). The burning of organic matter used in the land clearing process was also taken into account in the calculation.
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