Infraestrutura Terrestre na Amazônia: Ações para Sustentabilidade

The report argues that land transport infrastructure is a primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon, noting that 95% of forest conversion occurred within 5.5 km of roads up to 2006. To decouple infrastructure from deforestation, the authors propose three pillars of reform: reforming the public administration's decision-making flow to anticipate socio-environmental analysis, improving the technical quality and scope of socio-environmental studies (specifically the delimitation of indirect influence areas), and increasing transparency through open georeferenced databases. The report identifies significant gaps in current practices, such as the lack of available approval minutes for Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA) and the failure of Environmental Impact Studies (EIA) to fully comply with their terms of reference.

• Land transport infrastructure is a major driver of deforestation in the Amazon; until 2006, approximately 95% of forest conversion happened within 5.5 km of roads.
• Four major federal investments in the state of Pará—Ferrogrão, BR-155/158, BR-163/230/MT/PA, and BR-230/PA—could potentially cause the deforestation of 6,989 km² over 30 years.
• The current public administration decision-making process lacks linearity and clear competencies, often resulting in projects being tendered before the completion of Environmental Impact Studies (EIA) or Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA).
• There is a lack of quality in socio-environmental studies; half of the analyzed EVTEAs were non-compliant with their terms of reference (TRs), and none of the analyzed EIAs fully complied with their TRs.
• Traditional 'buffer' methods for delimiting Indirect Influence Areas (AII) often underestimate impacts; the authors propose a 'market access' methodology to better estimate economic influence and resulting deforestation and carbon emissions.
• Transparency is severely lacking in federal land transport concessions in the Amazon, with 57% of key documents and information unavailable for 10 analyzed concessions between 2018 and 2022.

APA

Chiavari, J., Antonaccio, L., Araujo, R., Barros, A. C., Bragança, A., & Cozendey, G. (2022). Infraestrutura Terrestre na Amazônia: Ações para Sustentabilidade. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Agenda-Propositiva-Infra.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, Luiza Antonaccio, Rafael Araujo, Ana Cristina Barros, Arthur Bragança, and Gabriel Cozendey. Infraestrutura Terrestre na Amazônia: Ações para Sustentabilidade. Climate Policy Initiative, 2022. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Agenda-Propositiva-Infra.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2022infraestrutura, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Antonaccio, Luiza and Araujo, Rafael and Barros, Ana Cristina and Bragança, Arthur and Cozendey, Gabriel}, title = {{Infraestrutura Terrestre na Amazônia: Ações para Sustentabilidade}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2022}, month = jul, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Agenda-Propositiva-Infra.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }