Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil

IF 3.5 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.pecon.2025.03.003

André L. Guimarães , Álvaro M. Batista , Yuri Telles , Anna C.F. Aguiar , Fabio R. Scarano , Paulo Moutinho

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Abstract

While the world urgently hopes to reduce GHG emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation, the Brazilian Amazon offshore potentially becomes a new frontier for oil companies. The expected impact of oil royalties on the regional GDP is a political driving force pro-exploration. We advocate that the Brazilian Amazon offshore must remain oil exploration-free and that the country could give up its sovereign right to explore oil locally while replacing oil royalties with "green royalties". Therefore, we propose that the region could benefit from creating a trust fund covering the same amount of royalties that the area would receive from the country's decision not to allow oil exploration in the region.

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绿色特许权使用费：让亚马逊近海地区远离石油

当世界迫切希望减少化石燃料和森林砍伐造成的温室气体排放时，巴西亚马逊近海可能成为石油公司的新前沿。石油特许权使用费对地区GDP的预期影响是支持勘探的政治驱动力。我们主张，巴西亚马逊近海必须保持无石油勘探，该国可以放弃在当地勘探石油的主权权利，同时用“绿色特许权使用费”取代石油特许权使用费。因此，我们建议，该地区可以从建立一个信托基金中受益，该基金将涵盖该地区从该国不允许在该地区进行石油勘探的决定中获得的相同数量的特许权使用费。

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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation Environmental Science-Nature and Landscape Conservation

CiteScore

7.80

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4.30%

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审稿时长

59 days

期刊介绍： Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation (PECON) is a scientific journal devoted to improving theoretical and conceptual aspects of conservation science. It has the main purpose of communicating new research and advances to different actors of society, including researchers, conservationists, practitioners, and policymakers. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation publishes original papers on biodiversity conservation and restoration, on the main drivers affecting native ecosystems, and on nature’s benefits to people and human wellbeing. This scope includes studies on biodiversity patterns, the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, biological invasion and climate change on biodiversity, conservation genetics, spatial conservation planning, ecosystem management, ecosystem services, sustainability and resilience of socio-ecological systems, conservation policy, among others.