VIABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DE INFRAESTRUTURAS DE TRANSPORTES TERRESTRES NA AMAZÔNIA

The policy brief examines 14 federal railway and highway concession projects in the Legal Amazon, finding significant procedural uncertainty and a lack of transparency. It highlights the absence of a mandatory sequence between Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA) and Environmental Impact Studies (EIA), which delays the identification of socio-environmental risks. Additionally, 57% of key documents for these projects were unavailable, hindering monitoring and investor risk assessment. The authors recommend mandating that EVTEAs precede EIAs and centralizing project data in a transparent database.

• An analysis of 14 large infrastructure projects reveals three primary issues in the discussion protocol for land transport in the Amazon: procedural indefiniteness, lack of sequencing between EVTEA and EIA, and a lack of transparency. These factors increase environmental risk and compromise the quality of viability analysis and project execution.
• There is a lack of clear procedural rules for the viability phase of federal railway and highway concessions. Specifically, there is no legal requirement for Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA) to be completed before Environmental Impact Studies (EIA), which prevents the early analysis of socio-environmental issues before the environmental licensing phase.
• Transparency is severely limited in the viability phase of federal concessions in the Amazon. Approximately 57% of the primary documents and information for the 14 analyzed segments could not be found, including engineering studies and the criteria used to approve EVTEAs.
• Governance issues are evident through 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 in Goiás.
• The authors recommend two primary adjustments: establishing a mandatory requirement that EVTEAs precede EIAs to anticipate socio-environmental risk analysis, and creating a centralized, orderly 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} }