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Associação Mundial de Business Angels

Cimeira Mundial de Business Angels dá origem à criação da Associação Mundial de Business Angels
Representantes de 5 continentes encontram-se no Estoril para preencher uma falha do mercado mundial de financiamento

No dia 10 de Outubro de 2007, no Estoril (Portugal), os participantes da Cimeira Mundial de Business Angels (Business Angels Leaders Forum), co-organizado pela FNABA (Federação Nacional de Associações de Business Angels), pela EBAN (European Business Angels Network) e pela ACA (Angel Capital Association), da América do Norte, decidiram criar a Associação Mundial de Business Angels, com início oficial a 1 de Janeiro de 2008.Este encontro foi patrocinado pelo IAPMEI, DNA Cascais, InovCapital e pela Gesventure.António d’Orey Capucho, Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Cascais, mostra-se satisfeito por “decorrer no município de Cascais a recepção desta comunidade internacional que tanto representa o esforço que o próprio município tem feito no estímulo ao empreendedorismo”.Este evento teve lugar no âmbito da Presidência Portuguesa da U.E., facto que levou Jaime Andrez, Presidente do IAPMEI, a comentar no encerramento do evento que “este é um importante passo para o desenvolvimento da comunidade de business angels em todo o mundo, sendo certo que a presidência portuguesa continuará este movimento no próximo Conselho de Ministros da U.E. sobre a Competitividade, que terá lugar em Novembro em Portugal”.As seguintes regiões foram representadas pelas associações:- América do Norte, representada pela ACA- Europa, representada pela EBAN- Países de origem Árabe, representados pela ABAN (Arab Business Angels Network)Os seguintes países estiveram presentes:
Angola
Austrália
Brasil
Cabo Verde
Chile
China
Finlândia
França
Índia
Itália
Japão
Malásia
Polónia
Portugal
Espanha
Reino Unido

“Ter representantes de 5 continentes e mais de 30 paíeses, foi um grande desafio para a FNABA, EBAN e ACA. Estou desde já muito satisfeito com os resultados atingidos e que excederam largamente as nossas expectativas. Tenho a certeza de que este evento e a criação da associação munidal, fomentará a actividade da Comunidade de Business Angels portuguesa e de todo o mundo”, mencionou Francisco Banha, Fundador e Presidente da FNABA.Os participantes consideraram que:- A actividade dos Business Angels em todo o mundo contribui para a criação de um ambiente propício ao financiamento da inovação e do empreendedorismo.- É importante conhecer e disseminar as ferramentas adequadas para o financiamento da inovação e empreendedorismo, de forma a estimular o aparecimento de empresas start-ups com o suporte de Business Angels.- É importante estabelecer parcerias entre redes de anjos de diferentes países, bem como fomentar os investimentos transnacionais.- É importante para os legisladores de cada país ter acesso à informação recolhida pela comunidade de Business Angels e fomentar a sua capacidade de criar e desenvolver mecanismos de financiamento numa lógica público-privada, tendo em vista o suporte à inovação e ao empreendedorismo.“A EBAN considera que esta iniciativa se tornará no pontapé de saída para uma vigorosa comunidade internacional de Business Angels. Gostaria de agradecer à FNABA, ao Governo Português, ao Município de Cascais e aos patrocinadores que tornaram este evento possível”, afirmou Anthony Clarke, Presidente da EBAN.A Associação Mundial de Business Angels terá os seguintes objectivos:• Divulgar mundialmente a importância e a prática do investimento realizado pelos Business Angels;• Apoiar os membros na reflexão, realização de iniciativas e tomadas de decisão que contribuam para a difusão do conceito de investimento em early stage, nomeadamente o investimento de early stage realizado por particulares em empresas;• Realização de um evento anual;• Criar um portal de web para disseminação de informação e facilitar a comunicação entre os membros;• Identificar e divulgar através do website informação relevante que conduza à adopção internacional de boas práticas no financiamento da inovação e do empreendedorismo;• Estudar a exequibilidade de investimentos transnacionais com a participação de vários business Angels.• Promover a partilha de informação e conhecimento de boas práticas por Business Angels;• Contribuir para o desenvolvimento sustentável da sociedade, promovendo a adopção de todos os recursos disponíveis sobre Business Angels para o suporte à inovação e ao empreendedorismo.John May, Presidente da organização que representa mais clubes, afirmou reconhecer que “nunca mais um país ou rede de business Angels pode ficar no topo da inovação e da energia do empreendedorismo, sem considerar o resto do mundo. Agradecemos a oportunidade de co-organizar este inovador encontro mundial. Ficamos agora disponíveis para participar em esforços organizativos futuros”.

Portugal, Estoril, 10 de Outubro de 2007
Para mais informações contacte:
EBAN – claire.munck@eban.org
ACA – john@angelcapitalassociation.org
FNABA – info@fnaba.org

concurso para empreendedores!!

A Missão deste concurso, orientado para empreendedores, é o de desenvolver o espírito de iniciativa de natureza empresarial, em qualquer sector de actividade e em todo o território nacional.



É intuito dos promotores desta iniciativa incentivar empreendedores a elaborar planos de negócios para a criação de novas empresas de cariz inovador e produtivo, que venham a contribuir de forma clara para a criação de riqueza e para o crescimento da economia portuguesa. O concurso “AUDAX – Negócios à Prova” pretende ser assim uma iniciativa de referência na área do empreendedorismo nacional.

http://www.audax.tv/

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Fueling Biodiversity

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Fueling Biodiversity

Geneva, 5 October 2007 - The Netherlands is one of the biggest importers of palm oil for biofuels. However, recent studies illustrate that harvesting oil from Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia where 85% of commercial palm oil is grown, causes major carbon emissions through the destruction of rainforests and the draining and burning of peat land.
“As a biofuel, it’s a failure,” said Marcel Silvius, a climate change expert for Wetlands International, in an interview with the Associated Press.
Even though global efforts to decrease greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly concentrating on biofuels, numerous energy companies have put on hold plans to switch to palm oil. They are actually homing in on other solutions, including the possibility of moving towards so-called “second generation” biofuels that go beyond palm oil, corn (maize) and sugarcane as feedstocks.
First generation biofuels can degrade biodiversity because they traditionally use grains (wheat, corn, soybean), sugarcane and palm oil grown on the cleared forest land of wetlands. Some of these biofuels require almost as much energy to produce as they offer as fuels. They can affect food security as choices are made between using a crop as food or fuel, and because using farmland to plant for fuels can make food crops scarcer and more expensive. This could bring food shortages to poorer countries that rely on food imports and food aid.
The race to produce biofuels is also driving up land prices. As land prices go up, people who cannot prove tenure are pushed off their land to make way for commercial exploitation, as is happening in Brazil.
While first generation biofuels focus on corn and sugar and do not use all of the plant, second-generation biofuels use more of the feedstock, including the waste, to generate the fuel. The technology allows fuel to be made from any plant material.
“You can exchange food for energy,” said Fernando Almeida, BCSD Brazil (CEBDS) at the WBCSD’s March Liaison Delegates meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, but “be very careful, for when you solve a problem for one side of the world, you create problems for another.”
Cultivation of biofuels also brings with it risks of soil erosion, soil compaction, nutrient leaching, water use, declining crop diversity, and declining farmland diversity. Forestry risks stem from the conversion of forestland to agricultural uses, leading to species loss, habitat loss/fragmentation, declining site fertility, soil erosion and declining forestry diversity, not to mention competition for resources from other industry sectors that rely on forests for their primary products.
Similarly, there is the question of the amount of virtual water required to produce biofuels. For example, according to www.waterfootprint.org, as much as 1,300 liters of water are required to produce 1kg of wheat.
However, second generation biofuels could be used to increase biodiversity and help restore prairies, as flowering plants provide more useable energy per acre than corn fuel ethanol or soybean diesel and are far better for the environment. According to some estimates, prairie flowers provide 238% more bioenergy on average when there is a diverse mixture rather than a single species. The shift from annual to perennial crops also reduces the need to plough and till the fields, reducing the agricultural risks.
But “it will take second generation technology to make that work ... and it’s about commercializing that science,” said WBCSD’s George Weyerhaeuser, also at the Montreux meeting.
The second generation biofuels market could encourage forest landscape restoration through cleaner water, timber production and nature conservation, rather than simply maximizing tree cover on individual forest sites. Opportunities include incentives for forest landscapes by keeping forest land in forests and returning degraded agricultural lands to forest, which is good for nature conservation and clean water production, and reducing fire risk by getting rid of the fuel buildup in the understory (the area of a forest which grows in the shade of forest canopy).
But the challenge remains to create the enabling factors for biofuels to
enhance biodiversity. Some of these enabling factors include:
Environmental guidelines;
Planning processes to promote environmentally beneficial cropping and forestry;
Certification to inform intermediary buyers and endconsumers, thereby enabling differentiation in the marketplace and allowing people to make informed choices;
Technological innovations to get to the second generation quicker.
The standards should be appropriate for and applicable to all feedstocks, practical to implement and use, and cover the full life cycle. An energy company such as BP could have a role in doing an objective, thorough life cycle analysis of biofuels through its US$ 500 million energy bioscience institute based at the Universities of Berkeley and Illinois. “One option is to pursue regulation… another is to create market value and let customers differentiate to marginalize the nonsustainable processes,” said IUCN’s Andrea Athanas, also in Montreux.


Nuno Oliveira
Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’
(+351) 96 294 02 09

Declaração do Estoril

Declaração do Estoril -
Seminário sobre «Inovação no mercado de financiamento de PMEs»
(versão original em inglês)
- Estoril, 8-9 Outubro

Data: 2007-10-12

INTRODUCTION

The European vision of a successful knowledge-based economy, where high potential enterprises can emerge, growth, create employment and improve innovative capabilities, has among other priority issues, a major challenge: - to overcome the imperfect nature of the financial markets.Meeting this challenge requires a holist view of the financial system, spanning the equity-debt spectrum from both formal and informal risk capital markets, to the bank intermediation process, in order to reinforce the availability of a range of appropriate financing solutions for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) throughout their development life-cycle. The goal requires the active participation of the entire entrepreneurial infrastructure, including the businesses owners and managers, the financial services industry, government policy makers, academia and the media.The Estoril Declaration is the result of the Portuguese EU Presidency Forum “Financing Innovation – From Ideas to Market”, a joint initiative between the European Commission and IAPMEI (the Portuguese Agency for SMEs and Innovation), held at Estoril on the 8th and 9th of October 2007. The Estoril Declaration summarises the principles and good practice policies that help to achieve a more effective integration of the four pillars identified of the financial innovation value chain: - From Ideas to Market; Investment Readiness; The Right Environment; and Savings for Growth.Lessons from both practical experience and formal research activity by the Members States of the European Union and the European Commission have provided a clear set of policy priorities focused on improving the level and quality of entrepreneurial, small business activity within Europe.Initiatives should be taken to scan and distinguish the good practices and experiences in this important field. So, the range of measures to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation can be well known and advocated at all levels of society, and policymakers should make use of them to develop suitable policies.Current policies are more effectively taken up and implemented across the twenty-seven members of the European Union. To that end, the Estoril Declaration can be used as framework in the context of the renewed Lisbon Partnership for Growth and Jobs that the Commission and the Member States can use when developing, implementing and monitoring policies.

THE ESTORIL DECLARATION
The European Union needs to continue to develop a world-class environment supporting innovative and high growth Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs); an environment in which competitive markets work efficiently both within and across borders to allocate a range of appropriate forms of finance and related services, from professional and well informed providers to similarly competent entrepreneurs and their businesses at all stages of the enterprise life-cycle.

From Ideas to Market

I. Successful entrepreneurial economies need a ‘can do’ attitude to transforming interesting and novel ideas and discoveries into new products and services to both existing and new customers. The full realisation of Europe’s innovative resources and their delivery to world markets requires the ‘catalyst’ of a strong entrepreneurial culture to be supported by efficient financial markets

The conference recommendations to achieve this:

Entrepreneurial culture and new business formation should be promoted as an attractive and feasible career choice. This should be widely fostered by politicians, businesspeople, academics, students, and those teaching and advising current and future generations of European citizens.

Spin-out activities that commercialise intellectual property from universities and the research community should be encouraged. In particular use should be made of academic-private funding arrangements that recognise the demanding requirements of professionally-run and commercially attractive fund structures. Effective structures are likely to require cross-institutional collaboration, co-financing and risk sharing schemes.

The support of Europe’s financial services community is essential in the identification and industry adoption of practicable means by which intangible assets, such as intellectual property, can be pragmatically valued in order to attract additional debt finance and other resources. This is important especially for innovative and technology-based start-ups.

The specific demands of young and growing SMEs should be recognised by enterprise support infrastructures, as well as specialist and expert services. They should also acknowledge the considerable scale and scope of benefits stemming from the active concentration of new enterprise activity into dense and mutually-supportive local and regional clusters.

It is essential that a full spectrum of SME’s life-cycle financial and support services are available for attractive growth enterprises, from ‘seed stage’ incubators through business angels, guarantee societies and debt providers, to corporate venturing and institutional venture capital funds.

Investment Readiness

II. New and growing enterprises should have access to the right resources, as allocated by a free and competitive market. They have to earn investors’ interest and commitment by the greater attractiveness of their businesses profile compared to other available investment opportunities.

The conference recommendations to achieve this:

The enterprises’ internal capabilities to attract investors should be improved and reinforced so that they can supply sufficient, timely and accurate information to financial providers in order to get appropriate financial resources and other related services at competitive conditions. In particular, entrepreneurs, their commercial partners and their advisers need to recognise that Basel II capital requirements for transparency will require a greater effort from all parties to reduce information asymmetries.
It is highly relevant to develop professional mentoring and other advisory support services specially designed to meet the needs of attractive but often inexperienced entrepreneurs seeking external sources of finance.
When enterprises assume the responsibility of adopting appropriately rigorous standards of governance and disclosure, the financial infrastructure may provide the full spectrum of finance and support to the specific needs of early growth, development and the transfer or buy-out of established businesses.
Priority should be given to benchmarking tools to enhance the reputation of the best-performing enterprises, improving their market position and negotiation capabilities among their finance sources, individually or as a reference group.
The critical role of business angels and other informal investors should be recognised and exploited as the largest potential source of knowledge and of stable, early-stage, informal risk capital to young enterprises.

The Right Environment
III. Governments should ensure that entrepreneurial environments in which young firms are created, developed and traded are favourable to entrepreneurs and investors, avoiding inappropriate and costly legislative, fiscal or regulatory systems. Thus, policy makers should actively strive to remove existing barriers and promote new business formation and the growth of existing SMEs. Governments have a key mission in supporting enterprise, but should seek to ensure a subsidiary role compatible with ‘free’ market activity.

The conference recommendations to achieve this:

Legal, fiscal and administrative policy frameworks should directly encourage risk-taking by entrepreneurs and external investors, such as business angels and venture capitalists, also encouraging the entrance of new market players and professionals.
The importance of advisory services, like Business and Innovation Services, should be recognised to foster start-ups and spin-offs through their direct hands-on support. These networks have proven to be of great value to young promising and growing businesses, transforming their business models into robust and consistent ones.
Public authorities should leverage private sector involvement by setting up co-investment funds investing on a pari-passu basis with business angels and private investors.
Increasing levels of cross-border investment should be promoted with the goal of creating a single pan-European market in venture capital and private equity. This requires further legal and fiscal harmonisation or mutual recognition between member states.
The important role of Financial Institutions, in particular of guarantee societies, should be recognised as providers of financial and commercial knowledge to the SME entrepreneur on one side and of specialised risk assessment to the banks on the other.
Importance should be given to the creation of efficient and cost effective systems for the transfer of businesses to new ownership/management in order to ensure the continuation and growth of existing viable enterprises. Such transfer systems should also expedite the timely removal of unsuccessful business ventures from the market, thereby assisting the efficient reallocation of existing resources.

Savings for Growth
IV. Savings should be channelled and long term investments mobilised for investment in SME assets, for example through structured finance instruments. This process should be supported by public risk sharing schemes whenever needed, to encourage private investment into market failure areas where it would be otherwise particularly difficulty to attract a sufficient stock of funding due to the well known information asymmetries and the high transaction costs incurred.

The conference recommendations to achieve this:

The valuable role of banks should be recognised, in particular when they are supported by mutual or public loan guarantee schemes and related initiatives to securitise SME debt is essential as this allows increasing the liquidity within the financial market and the capacity for renewed banking exposures on SME finance.
The practical relevance of venture capital should be emphasised by strengthening the links between business angel groups and investors from the formal sector would facilitate the continued flow of financing for enterprise growth, simultaneously providing opportunities for early stage investor exits.
Venture capital and private equity should be recognised as an attractive asset class for long-term institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies.

There is a need for a single pan-European stock market of sufficient economic scale, liquidity, technical expertise and specialism in high growth/high potential, new knowledge-based firms across the member states. Stock market trading in growing and high-potential companies provides an important source of capital and acts as an exit channel for later stage investors.

Alternative and novel financing instruments are needed to overcome financing problems, including micro-finance, mezzanine, equity and mezzanine guarantees as well as and stock options. Such instruments can be focused specifically on the growth needs of young innovative SMEs.

Estoril, 9th of October 2007


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Biofuels could add to greenhouse gas emissions

Sugar cane requires less fertilizer than other biofuels
Cássio Quitério
5 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
A new paper suggests that biofuel production may be contributing to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
The lead author and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and colleagues from the United States and Europe suggest that the nitrogen fertilizer required to produce crops for biofuels may result in larger nitrous oxide emissions than previously thought.
According to the study, microorganisms turn 3–5 per cent — rather than the one per cent estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — of the nitrate used for fertilizing the crops into nitrous oxide.
Nitrous oxide is one of the major greenhouse gases; when considered over a 100-year period, it has a potential to influence global warming 296 times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
The global warming caused by the nitrous oxide produced by rapeseed is 1–1.7 times more than the 'cooling' effect due to saved fossil fuel (carbon dioxide) emissions. For corn, this figure is 0.9–1.5, indicating that it is perhaps better to continue using petrol than to grow and burn biofuels.
Sugar cane was the only crop shown to have a favourable balance of greenhouse gas savings and emissions, because it requires less fertilizer than other biofuel crops.
Brazil, one of the world's major sugar cane producers, has invested heavily in ethanol production and biofuel use. According to the Brazilian Geographic and Statistics Institute, Brazil's sugar cane production reached 425 million tonnes in 2006–2007.
Jurandir Zullo Jr, an agricultural engineer and researcher from the Brazilian Centre for Meteorological and Climate Research in Agriculture (Cepagri), says the Crutzen study is relevant, but many other factors need to be considered when calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels, from chemical to social and economical aspects.
He adds that if these conclusions were confirmed, it would encourage further sugar cane production in Brazil. The expansion of sugar cane crops however threatens to continue to encourage deforestation, which also contributes to global warming.

The discussion paper was published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.
Link to full paper [382KB]

Related SciDev.Net articles:
Mexican President vetoes biofuel lawColombia to advise Central America on biofuelsGuyana is ready to bet on biofuelsBrazil & climate change: a country profile
Related links: Cepagri



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Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & oxford climate policy

Food Miles or Poverty Eradication?
The moral duty to eat African strawberries at Christmas
by Benito Müller
Director, Energy & Environment OIES, Managing Director OCP

In his latest Energy and Environment Comment, Dr Benito Müller looks at the recent controversy about discouraging consumers particularly in the UK from buying produce of least developed countries because of their 'food miles', i.e. the transport carbon emissions (especially from air freight), and the effect that such an environmental consumer boycott has on the efforts to eradicate poverty in these countries. He proposes a solution to the dilemma which offers a 'double development dividend', not only in terms of clean exports, but also in promoting much needed CDM activities in these poorest and most vulnerable countries.

available at
http://www.oxfordclimatepolicy.org/publications/mueller.html

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Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação

2ª

Sessão Auditório

Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação

– Campo Grande, Nº 56 r/c, Lisboa Conferência Gratuita

A Alma Consulting Group, convida-o a estar presente na 2ª Sessão sobre Sistemas de Apoio á Inovação, dia 24 de Outubro, pelas 17h30.

Porque a Inovação é vital para as empresas, e representa um custo elevado, a Alma Consulting Group dá início em Lisboa á segunda conferência sobre os sistemas de apoio ao desenvolvimento da Inovação Empresarial (Subvenções da C.E., Benefícios e Incentivos Fiscais,...).

Usando a sua experiência de 21 anos de consultadoria (com remuneração ao success fee) a Alma Consulting Group coloca os seus clientes Portugueses que investem em Projectos de Inovação ao nível dos seus congéneres Europeus.

Programa:

· “Innovation Incentives in the World” A importância dos Apoios à Inovação para manter a competitividade da economia. Vincent Fournié, International Innovational Manager, Alma Consulting Group International.

· “Como beneficiar do SIFIDE?” Manual de utilização do principal incentivo fiscal à Inovação. Rui Manuel dos Santos, Manager, Alma Consulting Group

· “Outros programas Nacionais QREN 2007-2013”. Nuno Nazaré, Innovation Manager, Alma Consulting Group Portugal.

· “How Europe can help you to finance your R&D projects?” 7º Programa Quadro para Investigação e Desenvolvimento na U.E. (2007-2013). Marine Giraud, Development of Collaborative Projects Activity, Alma Consulting Group France.

· “Success Story” Um empresário conta o seu exemplo concreto de utilização dos Sistemas de Apoio à Inovação para financiar os seus projectos inovadores e aumentar sua competitividade.

· Cocktail

Agradecemos que confirme a sua presença para os seguintes contactos:

Joana Facha Tel.: 916 484 550

E-mail: joanafacha@netcabo.pt

Natália De Almeida

E-mail: ndealmeida@almacg.com

As empresas apostam cada vez mais em ideias verdes! Por exemplo, esta cadeira é feita com aproximadamente 50% de material reciclado e no final do seu ciclo de vida o seu material é 98% reciclável.

Há muito por fazer no sector das Bio-tecnologias e é neste sector que as empresas portuguesas podem intervir com inovação. Portugal tem-se distinguido pelo desenvolvimento de empresas que actuam em sectores muito especializados, podendo esta vir a ser uma grande oportunidade.

Jorge Carpinteyro

Advank

Innovation Consulting

‘Business and Biodiversity’

Conforme poderá ser do Vosso interesse, passamos a enviar a notícia referente à mais recente adesão à iniciativa ‘Business and Biodiversity’
Caso deseje saber mais sobre o modelo de gestão ‘Business and Biodiversity’ contacte-nos ou vá a http://www.ambiodiv.com/BusinessBiodiversity.shtm

Com os nossos melhores cumprimentos,

Nuno Oliveira
Coordenador Estratégia ‘Business and Biodiversity’ e ‘Countdown 2010’
AmBioDiv – Valor Natural

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No âmbito da iniciativa Business and BiodiversityCinco instituições assinam parceria para promover biodiversidade dos montados de sobro e azinho 10.10.2007 - 15h54 PUBLICO.PT

Esta tarde é assinada em Coruche uma parceria entre a Corticeira Amorim, a Direcção-Geral dos Recursos Florestais (DGRF), Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade (ICNB), Quercus e WWF para promover e valorizar a biodiversidade dos montados de sobro e azinho, no âmbito da iniciativa Business and Biodiversity.
Segundo fonte do ICNB, a Corticeira Amorim – que transforma e comercializa 30 por cento da produção mundial de cortiça - disponibiliza-se a “montar um esquema de consultoria, que é oferecido directamente aos produtores florestais, para melhorar a biodiversidade dos montados”.Será disponibilizado aos produtores que explorem montado de sobro um serviço de aconselhamento técnico gratuito para identificar as melhores práticas a implementar.Além disso, vai ser instituído um prémio para as melhores práticas na gestão e valorização do montado.A parceria prevê a criação de uma comissão técnica de acompanhamento, onde participarão todas as entidades.O montado, habitat Rede Natura 2000, tem reconhecido o seu papel de suporte à biodiversidade e de combate à desertificação. Além disso, o montado português terá absorvido 4,8 milhões de toneladas de dióxido de carbono em 2006, segundo um estudo do Instituto Superior de Agronomia. No entanto, regista-se uma mortalidade anormal de sobreiro e azinheira, pelo que foi criado, no ano passado, o Programa de Acção Para a Recuperação dos Montados de Sobro e de Azinho.



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