STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR FEDERAL LAND INFRASTRUCTURE CONCESSIONS

The analysis reveals that environmental studies for federal land infrastructure in the Legal Amazon prioritize socio-economic and physical factors over the biotic environment. It finds a lack of coordination between EVTEAs and EIAs, with only 30% of EIA components appearing in EVTEAs, and notes that studies frequently fail to comply with their own terms of reference (TRs) or sectoral manuals. The brief recommends incorporating international guidelines into TRs and making EVTEAs mandatory before EIAs to improve project viability and environmental protection.

• Environmental studies place a higher quantitative emphasis on socio-economic and physical environments than on the biotic environment (fauna and flora), which limits the ability to analyze biotic impacts early in the project feasibility stage.
• There is significant overlap and a lack of coordination between the two primary studies; approximately 30% of components analyzed in EIAs are also analyzed in EVTEAs, suggesting that mandatory correlation would increase efficiency.
• Environmental studies do not fully adhere to the guidelines provided in sectoral manuals issued by VALEC for railroads and DNIT for highways, with the railroad sector incorporating an average of 47% and the highway sector 54% of the required components.
• The analyzed studies fail to incorporate all ten of the most relevant social and environmental components identified in international guidelines, with 'riverine communities' being entirely absent from all reviewed studies.
• There is a systemic failure in compliance with the Terms of Reference (TR); while some highway EVTEAs complied, railroad EVTEAs and all analyzed EIAs failed to fully meet their respective TR requirements.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2021). STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR FEDERAL LAND INFRASTRUCTURE CONCESSIONS. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Componentes-Socioambientais-EN-1.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR FEDERAL LAND INFRASTRUCTURE CONCESSIONS. 2021. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Componentes-Socioambientais-EN-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2021strengthening, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR FEDERAL LAND INFRASTRUCTURE CONCESSIONS}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Componentes-Socioambientais-EN-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }