Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon

The 'Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon' project, running from July 2019 to December 2020, aims to improve the quality of infrastructure in Brazil by incorporating social and environmental risk assessments into the decision-making process. The initiative specifically targets the feasibility study phase as the optimal time to anticipate these risks to ensure more robust and sustainable project implementation. The project employs a dual approach consisting of economic analysis and regulatory/governance analysis to develop evidence-based proposals for the Brazilian government.

• Brazil's infrastructure quality is low compared to global standards, which negatively impacts business logistics, citizen mobility, production costs, and overall productivity.
• The project seeks to reform regulations to ensure socio-environmental risks are measured early in the infrastructure process to protect the Amazon's ecosystem services and improve national logistics.
• The project identifies the feasibility study stage as a critical but currently neglected window for integrating social and environmental considerations to improve project quality.
• The initiative utilizes two parallel components—economic analysis and regulatory and governance analysis—to strategically integrate risk assessments into the project lifecycle.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2019). Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sustainable-Infrastructure-in-the-Amazon.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon. 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sustainable-Infrastructure-in-the-Amazon.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2019sustainable, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2019}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sustainable-Infrastructure-in-the-Amazon.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }