"When people do make changes" - which tense is this?

Which tense are sentences like:

  • "When people do make changes good things happen"
  • "Even if monkeys can play an important role, their actions can pose risk to the general public"

Solution 1:

Those sentences are both zero-conditional sentences.

The first sentence has an emphatic do thrown in.

The second sentence uses the modal verb can to express possibility.