Oportunidades para a exportação de produtos compatíveis com a floresta

What activities can boost the low-carbon, regenerative economic development of  the Amazon in this decade? The most frequent answers involve the  processing of raw materials that are now sold in their raw state, the sale of forest carbon credits and the discovery of new compounds, molecules or materials from its biodiversity. These suggestions are promising, but the risks involved are also high. Instead of evaluating the search for new products or new markets, this article shows that the Amazon has enormous space to expand its participation in the multibillion-dollar markets for the products that its companies already export.

This study is part of the Amazon 2030 project (AMZ 2030) and its findings are  anchored in a database specially built with the values ​​and products  exported by the Amazon and other countries in the world between 2017 and 2019. This construction was possible because about 210 countries require their companies to declare foreign trade transactions using a standardized catalog of approximately 5,000 products. In Brazil, these data are available by state, which allows the approximate identification of exports originating in the Legal Amazon.