Native Plants of the Cerrado

Concern about environmental issues prompted this work, with a special focus on environmental damage in the face of the law and the ability to assess this damage. The parties must adopt measures to foresee, avoid or minimise the causes of environmental changes and mitigate their negative effects. When threats of serious or irreversible damage arise, taking into account that the policies and measures adopted to tackle climate change must be cost-effective in order to ensure global benefits. In recent years, Brazilian and foreign legal doctrine has become more intense in addressing problems linked to damage caused to the environment and to artistic, aesthetic, historical, tourist and landscape values. In various parts of the world, including Brazil, soils contaminated with toxic metals need to be remediated, and programmes for this purpose include strategies for mitigating phytotoxicity and selecting plants that are tolerant to excess metals. The Brazilian Cerrado thus demonstrates that it has plants that can help us in the process of soil decontamination, which is a long and very expensive process.