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and MapBiomas are prerequisites. The same approaches designed within the biomes and
infrastructure can also reduce fire-reversal risk in societies they measure, informed by Indigenous
existing REDD+ portfolios. and traditional knowledge and accountable to
national frameworks. Such situated legitimacy is a
Integrity before volume condition of rigour, not a concession. Avoided fire
A 10% reduction of the historical reference equals degradation is a frontier where the Global South is
roughly 45 MtCO per year, yet this is physical well placed to set, rather than receive, the standard.
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potential, not creditable supply: attribution,
additionality, leakage and permanence must
be demonstrated. At COP31, Ecora proposes a
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