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The Green Filter Hengst Brazil Project, started in 2023, is in a 9.47-hectare native Atlantic Forest area, located in the municipality of Joinville, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The Atlantic Forest is a hotspot on Earth, home to a great biodiversity of fauna and flora species, many of which are endemic. Forests contain a large amount of carbon, which is stored in their vegetation, soil and biomass. Deforestation and forest degradation, on the other hand, release this carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.
Therefore, the objective of the project is to keep the forest standing by maintaining and increasing the carbon stock of the above-ground tree biomass.
This project is important because it considers the history of land use in the region where it is located. It is possible to state that the activity of preserving standing forests is not common in urban and industrial areas in the state of Santa Catarina. Therefore, it is considered that the project has additionality, since without it, the area would hardly remain preserved over time.
The project will maintain the stock of 2.326,520 tCO2e (tons of carbon dioxide equivalent), contributing to the mitigation of climate change, protection of the biodiversity of local fauna and flora, conservation of water resources and maintenance of carbon in the soil through the protection of the native forest of the Atlantic Forest.
This project also contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming to protect the environment and climate and ensure that people can enjoy peace and prosperity.
Alignment with the SDGs:
SDG11: Sustainable cities and communities
SDG13: Climate action
SDG15: Life on land
SDG17: Partnerships for the goals