VIABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DE INFRAESTRUTURAS DE TRANSPORTES TERRESTRES NA AMAZÔNIA

This policy brief analyzes 14 federal land transport projects in the Legal Amazon, finding significant procedural gaps and a lack of transparency. Key issues include the absence of a mandatory sequence between preliminary viability studies (EVTEA) and environmental impact studies (EIA), and the fact that 57% of essential project documentation is unavailable. The authors recommend mandating that EVTEA precede EIA and centralizing project data to improve governance and reduce environmental risks.

• An analysis of 14 large infrastructure projects reveals three critical issues in the protocol for land transport projects in the Amazon: procedural indefiniteness, a lack of sequencing between technical-economic-environmental viability studies (EVTEA) and environmental impact studies (EIA), and a lack of transparency. These factors increase environmental risk, compromise viability analysis, and reduce the attractiveness of the projects for ethical companies.
• There is a significant lack of procedural clarity regarding the order of stages in the life cycle of federal railway and highway concessions. Specifically, there is no legal requirement or logical correlation ensuring that EVTEA (which provide preliminary socio-environmental analysis) precede the EIA. In some cases, such as the BR-153/TO/GO project, the Preliminary License (LP) was obtained before the EVTEA were completed.
• Transparency in the viability phase of federal concessions in the Amazon is severely lacking, with 57% of key documents and information for the 14 analyzed segments being unavailable or non-existent. The CPI/PUC-Rio was unable to access motivated approval acts for EVTEA, engineering studies (basic and executive projects), and drafts of concession contracts and notices.
• Governance issues are evidenced by fragmented and contradictory information across different government entities. For example, the PPI and VALEC provided conflicting information regarding the starting point of the FICO railway segment, with one stating it begins in Mara Rosa/GO and the other in Campinorte/GO.
• The authors recommend two primary adjustments to reduce execution risks and improve infrastructure quality: establishing a mandatory requirement that EVTEA precede the EIA to allow for earlier socio-environmental risk analysis, and creating a centralized, ordered database for all documents and information related to federal railway and highway concessions.

APA

Cozendey, G., & Chiavari, J. (2021). VIABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DE INFRAESTRUTURAS DE TRANSPORTES TERRESTRES NA AMAZÔNIA. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Viabilidade-PT.pdf

Chicago

Cozendey, Gabriel, and Joana Chiavari. VIABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DE INFRAESTRUTURAS DE TRANSPORTES TERRESTRES NA AMAZÔNIA. Climate Policy Initiative, 2021. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Viabilidade-PT.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cozendey2021viabilidade, author = {Cozendey, Gabriel and Chiavari, Joana}, title = {{VIABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DE INFRAESTRUTURAS DE TRANSPORTES TERRESTRES NA AMAZÔNIA}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PB-Viabilidade-PT.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }