Braz. political sci. rev.2023;17(3):e0008.
The Politics and Policies of Climate Change in Brazil: mapping out the field
Carlos R. S. Milani
, Mahrukh Doctor
DOI: 10.55881/art0001
Introduction
Increasing global warming, health pandemics, accelerated losses of biodiversity, growing deforestation rates, frequent and non-anticipated climate events such as off-the-scale floods, longer droughts, storms, typhons and cyclones in Brazil and world-wide are also political agendas. They have produced intense public debates about the responsibility of states and corporations, the connections between the climate emergency and development models, including the role of the fossil economy, agribusiness and mining in obstructing sustainable transition policies. The climate emergency has also steered governments and international agencies to work on recovery programs (also known as Green New Deals) and just energy transition frameworks. Civil society organizations (CSO), North and South of the international system, have started promoting transnational actions on ecological and social transition scenarios, projects to overcome the fossil combustion energy model, new consumption patterns and lifestyles, relationships of solidarity between human and non-human forms of life, among many other subjects. Ultraconservative think tanks have also disseminated messages against what they have framed as the ‘climate hoax’ and promoted linkages between authoritarian leaders and anti-science networks. The politics of climate change, nationally and transnationally, involve a myriad of actors, vested interests, and world visions that meddle in the making of public policies, from the local to the international levels.
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