Biodiversity Conservation

We work with the objective of contributing to the biodiversity conservation in environmental, social and economic aspects.

Climate change

We support decision makers in the climate agenda focused on ecosystem conservation and restoration projects and biodiversity.

Ecosystem restoration

The approaches developed by IIS aim to assist the planning and implementation of vegetation recovery projects, exploring synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and costs, under a variety of scenarios.

Sustainable development

We seek to promote the transition to sustainability, contributing to the balance between socioeconomic development, biodiversity conservation and rational use of natural resources.

Sustainable Land Use

We promote the transition from the traditional agricultural practices to a more sustainable land management, helping to mitigate climate change and guaranteeing the future of the next generations.

Economic Analysis

We seek to strengthen and defend the basic principles of balance between the economy and the environment, favoring research, planning and management in public and private fields, linked to the relationship between ecological, social and economic systems, in order to improve social well-being.

Policies

We assist in the formulation of policies aimed at sustainability, as well as the implementation of practical actions, working in partnership with public sector bodies and other organizations.

Spatial intelligence

Through landscape modeling and monitoring, we identify the patterns and trends of social and ecological systems, supporting decision makers through quantitative statistics and mapped scenarios.

Publications

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TEEB São Paulo – Use and land use scenarios of Paraíba do Sul River Basin – Paulista Portion/SP

This report designed and compared three possible future scenarios of integrated land use in the Basin. The modelling of scenarios of future land use for the Basin was a step for the valuation of ecosystem services. The three designed scenarios were: 1) Business as Usual (BAU), in which future land use is based on the maintenance of trends that have occurred in recent years; 2) Legal Compliance (LC), in which zero deforestation is combined to the implementation of native vegetation recovery occurring inside rural properties that have environmental debts foreseen in NVPL; and 3) Sustainable Landscape Management (SLM), in which the implementation of sustainable practices in production inside rural properties with projected increase in areas of agriculture and zero deforestation is combined to the recovery of native vegetation foreseen in NVPL to supplement the environmental debt existing in rural properties.