Projects approved under Amazon Fund surpass BRL 1 billion in 2025
Brazil’s Amazon Fund approved BRL 1.189 billion in projects during the first half of 2025 and registered the best performance in the allocation of resources since it was created, in 2009. The result was achieved after the funding was doubled, with new donors and the incorporation of BRL 1 billion in the last two years.
Managed by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, the Amazon Fund was created to finance the conservation, monitoring, and sustainable development of the biome.
In the 16 years of the fund’s existence, approved projects have reached BRL 5.6 billion, with disbursements for their implementation totaling BRL 2.7 billion following the contracting process.
Over the years, the amounts have increased reaching 133 initiatives, especially in 2023, when 23 percent of the projects were approved (totaling BRL 584 million) and 2024 (totaling BRL 947 million).
Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva pointed out that, in a geopolitical context where resources are being directed towards wars, investment in initiatives that protect life, based on practices that preserve the environment, is a good example of the real war that should be waged against climate change, poverty, and inequality.
Environmental gain
“When the money goes to the communities and isn’t reimbursed, we say it’s money lost, but it’s money gained. It’s the social, environmental, economic, scientific, technological, cultural gain, and the gain of partnership, of solidarity,” she said.
In addition to the increase in the number of projects and resources, the report presented Monday (Jun. 16) also highlighted the wide-ranging nature of the initiatives approved by the Amazon Fund for different regions of the biome, reaching quilombola communities, indigenous organizations, extractive workers, and family farmers.
Some examples cited were the Amazônia na Escola (“Amazon in School”), a project aimed at bringing the sustainable production of family farming to public schools. Another one is the Dabucury project, on territorial and environmental management for Amazon indigenous territories, which reached 28 institutions across nine states. Also released were the nine calls for proposals for the Restaura Amazônia project—initiatives aimed at indigenous lands, rural settlements, and conservation units, plus an area that stretches from the east of the state of Maranhão to Acre, passing through the south of Pará, Mato Grosso, and Rondônia.
