Jeitinho Brasileiro: Climate Mitigation Tactics among Local Institutions in the Amazonas State of Brazil

Høgenni, Magnus Elsuson ; Ender, Dominique

4. term

Social Sciences, Master

2024

2024-05-31

91 pages

With the vast deforestation of the Amazon caused by Bolsonaro's suspension of the PPCDAm, its reimplementation by his successor Lula da Silva has returned efforts against the consequences of climate change in the Amazonas state to political prominence. Over the decades, previous phases of the PPCDAm have been highly effective at curbing deforestation, with the success of related initiatives to enforce environmental governance and promote conservation being highly contingent on taking local institutional arrangements and informal power relations into account. Using the identification of key words and the Critical Institutional framework, we sought to identify and categorise the strategies that government bodies and NGOs use to mitigate and adapt to the consequences of climate change in the present day. We identified seven broad strategy categories used by the initiatives we analysed, with their approaches defined by a high degree of engagement with multiple stakeholders, adaptation to local conditions and a large focus on mitigation as opposed to adaptation. These approaches are often novel and highly varied, but were limited (with few exceptions) by local institutional arrangements and the attitudes of stakeholders, with the prevalence of mitigation precluding a focus on more fundamental changes.

Brazil, PPCDam, deforestation, climate change, critical institutionalism, Amazonas, Amazon rainforest, institutional bricolage, NGOs, local institutions, indigenous rights, socio-environmental

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