Infraestrutura Terrestre na Amazônia: Ações para Sustentabilidade

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) proposes a 12-point action plan to decouple terrestrial infrastructure development from deforestation in the Amazon. The agenda focuses on three pillars: improving the public administration's decision-making process to anticipate socio-environmental analysis, enhancing the quality of socio-environmental studies, and increasing transparency in federal concessions.

• Terrestrial transport infrastructure is a primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon. Data indicates that until 2006, approximately 95% of forest conversion occurred within 5.5 km of roads. In the state of Pará alone, four major federal investments—Ferrogrão, BR-155/158, BR-163/230/MT/PA, and BR-230/PA—have the potential to cause 6,989 km² of deforestation over 30 years.
• The current public decision-making process for infrastructure lacks linearity and clear competencies, often leading to projects being tendered before socio-environmental studies are completed. The report recommends defining a formal decision-making flow, making Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA) mandatory before Environmental Impact Studies (EIA), and introducing a 'pre-viability' phase to filter out low-quality projects based on territorial, environmental, and social governance.
• Socio-environmental studies often lack quality and fail to adhere to their own Terms of Reference (TR). Analysis by CPI/PUC-Rio found that half of the analyzed EVTEAs showed non-compliance with their TRs, and none of the analyzed EIAs fully complied. The report suggests incorporating international best practice guidelines into TRs and ensuring strict adherence to sectoral manuals.
• The report identifies a critical failure in how 'indirect influence areas' (AII) are delimited, typically using simple distance buffers that underestimate impacts. CPI/PUC-Rio proposes a 'market access' methodology to better estimate areas economically influenced by projects. For the Ferrogrão project, the indirect influence area is significantly larger when using the market access methodology compared to the buffer method, which directly affects deforestation and carbon emission estimates.
• There is a severe lack of transparency regarding federal transport concessions in the Amazon. Between 2018 and 2022, 57% of key documents and information for 10 analyzed federal railway and highway concessions were unavailable. Specifically, no EVTEA approval minutes were obtained despite active searches and numerous requests via the Access to Information Law.
• To improve transparency and monitoring, the report recommends creating a unified public database and a Geographic Information System (GIS). This GIS should map infrastructure location and condition alongside Conservation Units, Indigenous Lands, quilombola and traditional communities, settlements, private areas, and undesignated public lands.

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} }