Carbon consequences of Amazon deforestation - Paulo Brando paulo.brando@yale.edu) https://campuspress.yale.edu/brandolab/

Bar colours represent of forest was clear-cut, an increase phases of the Brazilian government’s Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the of 34% compared to 2018 (7,536 km2). [...] changes in the Brazilian Forest Code in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the Although this is not the final number, 2012 (ref. [...] (C) The dominant type at the end of edge effect and deforestation to the total carbon loss of each pixel in Amazonia. [...] At the same time, weakening of deforestation enforcement, the dismantling of climate damage caused by selective logging and fire in addition to deforesta- Deforestation was defined as a conversion from forest to non- Suriname’s forest edges and deforestation had the lowest contribu- change policies (including the interruption of the PPCDAm from 2019), tion (Figure 3; Schultz et al., 2016; Souza et. [...] images for each grid cell, which are used as the basis for the change forest was defined as the inverse of deforestation, or the transition Overall, our findings show that the deforestation process leads to Although the PPCDAm was a key step for the reduction of the detection and classification.