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ASL Brasil, phase 2
The ASL is a regional effort for conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon, aiming to connect people and institutions to conserved and managed landscapes. It’s funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by the World Bank (WB).
The ASL program currently has three phases. The first phase (ASL1), approved by the GEF Council in October 2015, includes five national projects executed in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The second phase (ASL2), approved in June 2019, comprises four new countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Suriname with one national project each, one new project in Peru, and the scale-up of two of the ongoing national projects in Brazil and Colombia. A third phase of the program (ASL3) was approved in June 2023, and direct on the ground interventions are expected to cover an area of approximately 47 million hectares of forests (including primary forests) across several Amazon countries, with planned outcomes supporting all 23 action-oriented global targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
In Brazil, the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project (ASL Brazil) is an initiative of the Federal Government, coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA), through its National Secretariat for Biodiversity, Forests and Animal Rights (SBIO). Its implementation is carried out by the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO), Conservation International Brazil (CI-Brasil), and the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Europe), in cooperation with the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), and the State Secretariats for the Environment of Acre, Amazonas, Pará, and Rondônia.
The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project is part of the Regional ASL Program, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the World Bank (WB), encompassing projects in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Together, these projects aim to improve integrated landscape management in the Amazon.
FGV Europe is the executing agency of ASL Brasil, phase 2.
Description: Project focused on environmental sustainability in collaboration with the World Bank and the Ministry of the Environment.
Objective: The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project (ASL Brazil) aims to expand and enhance the management of state and federal conservation units, increase the area under vegetation restoration, promote sustainable use of the forest, and strengthen value chains for biodiversity products in the Amazon.
