Eduardo Viola
Biographic Data
| ID | 762305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eduardo Viola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eduardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Viola |
| SIGNATURE | VIOLA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5028-2443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From protagonist to laggard, from pariah to phoenix: Emergence, decline, and re‐emergence of Brazilian climate change policy, 2003–2023
Brazil is a major greenhouse gas emitter and is highly vulnerable to climate change. Amazonian deforestation control 2005–2012 and a comprehensive national climate change adaptation plan in 2016 created opportunities for consistent climate action. Yet, subsequent administrations reversed this progress, turning the country into a laggard. President Lula is reviving the national climate agenda. In this article, we use the traditional framework of i…
Reflections on the Climate Urgency and the Political Response
Climate change is on its way to significantly impact the world economy and people’s wellbeing. It is one of the most unequal problems faced by humankind, where those who caused the problem (richer people) are much better protected from its impacts, while those at greatest risk are the poor people who contributed least to climate change. Solutions to the problem have been negotiated by countries under the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Conve…
Impact of economic sanctions on net commodity-producing and net commodity-consuming countries
The war in Ukraine has had a marked economic impact. However, since Russia is a net producer of important commodities, the impact of sanctions on its economy was less than expected. But what would happen if there was a war involving a country that was a net importer of commodities? In the case of a possible China-US conflict over Taiwan, the impact on the world economy would be different, with a deeper recession around the world, but the impact o…
Interest Groups in Brazilian Climate Policy: An Analysis of the Agricultural and Energy Sectors
Climate governance in Brazil is necessarily connected to the interests of three sectors: deforestation and land use change, agriculture, and energy, which, combined, represent around 90 percent of the country's emissions. While there is a significant number of studies on the first sector, few studies have looked into the bottlenecks of decarbonization in the agricultural and energy sectors. Thus, this article addresses some modulations in Brazili…
América Latina en la gobernanza del Antropoceno: Desafíos Y Propuestas
El sistema terrestre ha entrado en una nueva época geológica, el Antropoceno, marcada por un entorno más inestable, incierto y riesgoso para la vida en el planeta. La acción humana ha sido causa principal de la generación de esta crisis ambiental global, cuya gobernanza demanda mayor cooperación entre sociedades y Estados, así como una nueva estructura de prioridades de comportamiento individual y colectivo, es decir, una moral del Antropoceno. E…
Brazilian climate policy (1992–2019): An Exercise in Strategic Diplomatic Failure
In the Anthropocene, practicing diplomacy with a renewed emphasis on strategy is critical. However, the implications of the planet's new geological reality – of which climate change is the primary indicator – have not been internalised into policy and practice thus far at both the domestic and international levels. Brazil is no exception. In this article, the strategic diplomacy framework is applied to the Brazilian case as a policy proposal and …
Agricultura 4.0 e mudanças climáticas no Brasil
Este artigo introduz o debate sobre transições sociotécnicas de baixo-carbono no agronegócio brasileiro, partindo da premissa de que parcela crescente do setor adota tecnologias digitais em seus modelos de negócios, configurando um novo paradigma produtivo, a agricultura 4.0. Utilizamos a teoria de Transições para a Sustentabilidade para examinar a relação entre agricultura 4.0 e mudanças climáticas no Brasil. Para tanto, classificamos o agronegó…
Agriculture 4.0 and climate change in Brazil
This article introduces the debate on low-carbon socio-technical transitions in Brazilian agribusiness, based on the premise that a growing portion of the industry adopts digital technologies in its business models, configuring a new productive paradigm: agriculture 4.0. We use the Sustainability Transitions theory to examine the relationship between agriculture 4.0 and climate change in Brazil, classifying Brazilian agribusiness into three subse…
Governança ambiental: Da Destruição Das Florestas Até Os Objetivos De Descarbonização
O objetivo deste artigo é oferecer um panorama geral do lugar do meio ambiente na história do Brasil e do lugar do Brasil na governança global da mudança climática, área em que o país tem sido um ator de relevância. O marco teórico de referência é o enfoque do compromisso climático que analisa a trajetória das emissões, das políticas climáticas domésticas e externas ao país. Os conceitos do enfoque são aplicados a cinco períodos históricos
De Lula a Bolsonaro: Una década de degradación de la gobernanza climática en Brasil
Brasil ha sido históricamente un actor relevante en la gobernanza global del cambio climático. A finales de los años 2000s, bajo la Presidencia de Lula, el país parecía convertirse además en un líder global, dando muestras de compromiso climático en varios niveles de análisis, con emisiones decreciendo y actores nacionales, subnacionales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y del mercado comprometidos con la mitigación. A 10 años de aquella eufor…
Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures
This commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; an…
Catastrophic Climate Risk and Brazilian Amazonian Politics and Policies: A New Research Agenda
Climate and deforestation impacts are jeopardizing the resilience of the Amazon rainforest, one of the key elements in the Earth’s climate system whose dieback may trigger catastrophic climate change. The potential degree of climate risk that the planet is facing, and current Brazilian Amazonian politics and policies, make it alarmingly conceivable that a tipping point will be crossed that leads to savannization of the forest. However, the social…
South–South Transnational Advocacy: Mobilizing Against Brazilian Dams in the Peruvian Amazon
South–South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ. This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydro…
Myths and images in global climate governance, conceptualization and the case of Brazil (1989 - 2019)
Countries have a self-image of their role in global climate governance. If that image does not correspond to the country’s actual level of climate power, commitment and leadership, it becomes a myth. In this article, we define climate self-images/myths and analyze comprehensively the Brazilian case between 1989 and 2019. For most of this period, Brazil’s self-image was a myth
Brazil ups and downs in global environmental governance in the 21st century
B razil's share of global carbon emissions, mega biodiversity, vast fresh water resources, large territory, large population, and significant economy characterize it as relevant actor in Global Environmental Governance (GEG), either alone or participating in groups such as the G-77, BASIC and the G20 The country has the power to harm the Earth System, but may also be an important catalyst for innovative answers to the challenges posed by the Anth…
Divergences Between New Patterns of Global Trade and Brazil/Mercosur
Although integration has been a part of South American discourse for decades, the level at which it is actually promoted remains far from that which is observed in dynamic production and trading centers. Given transformations in global trade, the phenomenon of global value chains is, in fact, very regionalized. We ask whether the trading pattern of Mercosur countries is aligned with approaches based on regional value chain, and if not, how it dif…
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: From International Environmental Politics to Global Governance
This article proposes a reflection on the challenges of global environmental policy in the Anthropocene. Firstly, the inconsistency between the institutions of international environmental policy and the progressive degradation of the planetary boundaries is highlighted. Secondly, it is stated that, since the transition to Anthropocene requires the conscious construction of a new space of safe operation for humanity, it is necessary to radically m…
Wandering decarbonization: The BRIC countries as conservative climate powers
This article discusses the role of China, Russia, India and Brazil in the climate regime. It describes the trajectory of their emissions, of their domestic policies and of their international commitments, and argues that, despite their responsibility in causing the problem, they have been conservative forces in the climate regime
O Sistema Internacional No Antropoceno
No final do século XX e início do século XXI, uma nova época geológica teve início, o Antropoceno. Ele é caracterizado pela perda da estabilidade ambiental em razão da interferência humana, do impacto cumulativo do desenvolvimento econômico sobre o meio ambiente. A mudança é sem precedentes na experiência humana; mitigá-la significa assegurar uma existência mais segura para a humanidade. Essa mitigação, porém, requer concertação internacional mui…
Brazilian Energy-Climate Policy and Politics towards Low Carbon Development
Climate change has proved to be one of the greatest threats to human survival on Earth. Its mitigation requires that the greatest Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emitters adopt low carbon development, reducing emissions substantially. Brazil is among them. Although deforestation is still the main source of Brazilian emissions, since 1990 emissions from energy systems and industrial processes have increased and their shares in total Brazilian emissions hav…
Brazilian climate politics 2005–2012: Ambivalence and paradox
Climate change has become a powerful social and political driver of our time. Within this context, progressive national and international societies are faced with a central challenge: how can reformist forces become strong enough to bypass the efforts of conservative forces and initiate a rapid and profound response to the climate crisis? This article reviews the politics of climate change in Brazil between 2005 and 2012 with reference to this ce…
Chinese energy policy progress and challenges in the transition to low carbon development, 2006-2013
If the world is not to jeopardize the chances for human life on Earth, climate change must be mitigated; therefore, achieving low carbon development is crucial. China is the world's greatest GHG emitter, energy producer and energy consumer; investigating its energy-climate policy developments and international positions are of utmost importance to understand and tackle current stumbling blocks of the global energy and climate governance
Brasil na governança global do clima, 2005-2012: A Luta Entre Conservadores E Reformistas
A área de governança global do clima é definida por dois vetores básicos: poder e compromisso climático. O primeiro faz referência ao impacto de certos atores com capacidades suficientes para influenciar o social outcome climático. O segundo considera como a lógica da governança na área é definida pela dialética entre forças que assimilam o problema climático como crise civilizatória - reformistas - e forças que resistem às transformações necessá…
Global climate governance and transition to a low-carbon economy: A special issue of RBPI[subtitle]
Climate governance in an international system under conservative hegemony: The role of major powers
In the last five years, climate change has been established as a central civilizational driver of our time. As a result of this development, the most diversified social processes - as well as the fields of science which study them - have had their dynamics altered. In International Relations, this double challenge could be explained as follows: 1) in empirical terms, climate change imposes a deepening of cooperation levels on the international co…
Brazil and the politics of climate change: Beyond the Global Commons
Assessing the changing role of the emerging powers in global climate change negotiations, with special attention to Brazil, we ask why they have agreed to voluntary reductions at home without formalising those commitments in ways that might persuade other large emitters to make similar binding commitments. We argue that for very large emitters, the climate issue does not evince the ‘global commons’ logic often attributed to it. Instead, since the…
O regime internacional de mudança climática e o Brasil
Este artigo analisa o processo de formação do regime internacional de mudança climática desde as negociações e a assinatura da convenção Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudança Climática, no Rio de Janeiro (1992), passando pela negociação e assinatura do Protocolo de Kyoto (1997), até a conclusão dos pontos pendentes do protocolo na VII Conferência das Partes em Marrakesh (2001). Também são estudados as políticas públicas relacionadas às emissões …
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: From International Environmental Politics to Global Governance
This article proposes a reflection on the challenges of global environmental policy in the Anthropocene. Firstly, the inconsistency between the institutions of international environmental policy and the progressive degradation of the planetary boundaries is highlighted. Secondly, it is stated that, since the transition to Anthropocene requires the conscious construction of a new space of safe operation for humanity, it is necessary to radically m…
Brasil na governança global do clima, 2005-2012: A Luta Entre Conservadores E Reformistas
A área de governança global do clima é definida por dois vetores básicos: poder e compromisso climático. O primeiro faz referência ao impacto de certos atores com capacidades suficientes para influenciar o social outcome climático. O segundo considera como a lógica da governança na área é definida pela dialética entre forças que assimilam o problema climático como crise civilizatória - reformistas - e forças que resistem às transformações necessá…
Climate governance in an international system under conservative hegemony: The role of major powers
In the last five years, climate change has been established as a central civilizational driver of our time. As a result of this development, the most diversified social processes - as well as the fields of science which study them - have had their dynamics altered. In International Relations, this double challenge could be explained as follows: 1) in empirical terms, climate change imposes a deepening of cooperation levels on the international co…
Brazil ups and downs in global environmental governance in the 21st century
B razil's share of global carbon emissions, mega biodiversity, vast fresh water resources, large territory, large population, and significant economy characterize it as relevant actor in Global Environmental Governance (GEG), either alone or participating in groups such as the G-77, BASIC and the G20 The country has the power to harm the Earth System, but may also be an important catalyst for innovative answers to the challenges posed by the Anth…
O Sistema Internacional No Antropoceno
No final do século XX e início do século XXI, uma nova época geológica teve início, o Antropoceno. Ele é caracterizado pela perda da estabilidade ambiental em razão da interferência humana, do impacto cumulativo do desenvolvimento econômico sobre o meio ambiente. A mudança é sem precedentes na experiência humana; mitigá-la significa assegurar uma existência mais segura para a humanidade. Essa mitigação, porém, requer concertação internacional mui…
Catastrophic Climate Risk and Brazilian Amazonian Politics and Policies: A New Research Agenda
Climate and deforestation impacts are jeopardizing the resilience of the Amazon rainforest, one of the key elements in the Earth’s climate system whose dieback may trigger catastrophic climate change. The potential degree of climate risk that the planet is facing, and current Brazilian Amazonian politics and policies, make it alarmingly conceivable that a tipping point will be crossed that leads to savannization of the forest. However, the social…
Brazilian climate policy (1992–2019): An Exercise in Strategic Diplomatic Failure
In the Anthropocene, practicing diplomacy with a renewed emphasis on strategy is critical. However, the implications of the planet's new geological reality – of which climate change is the primary indicator – have not been internalised into policy and practice thus far at both the domestic and international levels. Brazil is no exception. In this article, the strategic diplomacy framework is applied to the Brazilian case as a policy proposal and …
Wandering decarbonization: The BRIC countries as conservative climate powers
This article discusses the role of China, Russia, India and Brazil in the climate regime. It describes the trajectory of their emissions, of their domestic policies and of their international commitments, and argues that, despite their responsibility in causing the problem, they have been conservative forces in the climate regime
Brazilian climate politics 2005–2012: Ambivalence and paradox
Climate change has become a powerful social and political driver of our time. Within this context, progressive national and international societies are faced with a central challenge: how can reformist forces become strong enough to bypass the efforts of conservative forces and initiate a rapid and profound response to the climate crisis? This article reviews the politics of climate change in Brazil between 2005 and 2012 with reference to this ce…
The ecologist movement in Brazil (1974-1986): From Environmentalism to Ecopolitics
South–South Transnational Advocacy: Mobilizing Against Brazilian Dams in the Peruvian Amazon
South–South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ. This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydro…
Divergences Between New Patterns of Global Trade and Brazil/Mercosur
Although integration has been a part of South American discourse for decades, the level at which it is actually promoted remains far from that which is observed in dynamic production and trading centers. Given transformations in global trade, the phenomenon of global value chains is, in fact, very regionalized. We ask whether the trading pattern of Mercosur countries is aligned with approaches based on regional value chain, and if not, how it dif…
Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures
This commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; an…
Myths and images in global climate governance, conceptualization and the case of Brazil (1989 - 2019)
Countries have a self-image of their role in global climate governance. If that image does not correspond to the country’s actual level of climate power, commitment and leadership, it becomes a myth. In this article, we define climate self-images/myths and analyze comprehensively the Brazilian case between 1989 and 2019. For most of this period, Brazil’s self-image was a myth
Sistema internacional de hegemonia conservadora: O fracasso da Rio + 20 na governança dos limites planetários
Em um artigo seminal, Rockström et al. (2009) inauguraram uma nova forma de abordar os problemas ambientais. A abordagem das fronteiras planetárias aparece como um instrumento analítico fundamental para avaliar a governança global do ambiente e, em um sentido mais profundo, para refletir sobre o rumo civilizatório da humanidade. O nosso objetivo nesse artigo, é fazer uma avaliação da Rio+20 utilizando como critério a governança global das frontei…
Brazil in the context of global governance politics and climate change, 1989-2003
The climate regime is the more comprehensive and ambitious of all environmental regimes, linking in a very direct way one the most crucial economic issue, the use of energy and energy efficiency with one of the stronger environmental threaten. For this reason the climate regime is one of the most important examples of the impasses of building up some limited global governance in a unipolar anarchic world. The paper discusses the evolution of the …
De Lula a Bolsonaro: Una década de degradación de la gobernanza climática en Brasil
Brasil ha sido históricamente un actor relevante en la gobernanza global del cambio climático. A finales de los años 2000s, bajo la Presidencia de Lula, el país parecía convertirse además en un líder global, dando muestras de compromiso climático en varios niveles de análisis, con emisiones decreciendo y actores nacionales, subnacionales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y del mercado comprometidos con la mitigación. A 10 años de aquella eufor…
Brazilian Energy-Climate Policy and Politics towards Low Carbon Development
Climate change has proved to be one of the greatest threats to human survival on Earth. Its mitigation requires that the greatest Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emitters adopt low carbon development, reducing emissions substantially. Brazil is among them. Although deforestation is still the main source of Brazilian emissions, since 1990 emissions from energy systems and industrial processes have increased and their shares in total Brazilian emissions hav…
Chinese energy policy progress and challenges in the transition to low carbon development, 2006-2013
If the world is not to jeopardize the chances for human life on Earth, climate change must be mitigated; therefore, achieving low carbon development is crucial. China is the world's greatest GHG emitter, energy producer and energy consumer; investigating its energy-climate policy developments and international positions are of utmost importance to understand and tackle current stumbling blocks of the global energy and climate governance
Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights
Governança ambiental: Da Destruição Das Florestas Até Os Objetivos De Descarbonização
O objetivo deste artigo é oferecer um panorama geral do lugar do meio ambiente na história do Brasil e do lugar do Brasil na governança global da mudança climática, área em que o país tem sido um ator de relevância. O marco teórico de referência é o enfoque do compromisso climático que analisa a trajetória das emissões, das políticas climáticas domésticas e externas ao país. Os conceitos do enfoque são aplicados a cinco períodos históricos
Global climate governance and transition to a low-carbon economy: A special issue of RBPI[subtitle]
A heterogeneidade política
Autoritarismo y democracia en la Argentina: Una Revisión Crítica
Los nuevos movimientos sociales, las culturas políticas y la democracia: Brasil y Argentina en la década de los ochenta
Scott Maiwaring, Eduardo Viola, Rosa Cusminsky, Los nuevos movimientos sociales, las culturas políticas y la democracia: Brasil y Argentina en la década de los ochenta, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 47, No. 4, Actores Sociales y Política (Oct. - Dec., 1985), pp. 35-84
A heterogeneidade política
The ecologist movement in Brazil (1974-1986): From Environmentalism to Ecopolitics
Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights
O regime internacional de mudança climática e o Brasil
Este artigo analisa o processo de formação do regime internacional de mudança climática desde as negociações e a assinatura da convenção Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudança Climática, no Rio de Janeiro (1992), passando pela negociação e assinatura do Protocolo de Kyoto (1997), até a conclusão dos pontos pendentes do protocolo na VII Conferência das Partes em Marrakesh (2001). Também são estudados as políticas públicas relacionadas às emissões …
Unipolaridade, governabilidade global e intervenção unilateral anglo-americana no Iraque
As intervenções humanitárias (Bósnia 1995-2003, Somália 1992-1993, Kosovo 1999-2003) e de substituição de regimes ditatoriais (Haiti 1994, Afeganistão 2001-2003, Iraque 2003) na política internacional têm sido objeto de muitas controvérsias acadêmicas durante a última década. O presente artigo, à luz dos teóricos das relações internacionais e da ciência política, analisa a legitimidade dessas atitudes por meio do unilateralismo norte-americano
Brazil in the context of global governance politics and climate change, 1989-2003
The climate regime is the more comprehensive and ambitious of all environmental regimes, linking in a very direct way one the most crucial economic issue, the use of energy and energy efficiency with one of the stronger environmental threaten. For this reason the climate regime is one of the most important examples of the impasses of building up some limited global governance in a unipolar anarchic world. The paper discusses the evolution of the …
Global climate governance and transition to a low-carbon economy: A special issue of RBPI[subtitle]
Climate governance in an international system under conservative hegemony: The role of major powers
In the last five years, climate change has been established as a central civilizational driver of our time. As a result of this development, the most diversified social processes - as well as the fields of science which study them - have had their dynamics altered. In International Relations, this double challenge could be explained as follows: 1) in empirical terms, climate change imposes a deepening of cooperation levels on the international co…
Brazil and the politics of climate change: Beyond the Global Commons
Assessing the changing role of the emerging powers in global climate change negotiations, with special attention to Brazil, we ask why they have agreed to voluntary reductions at home without formalising those commitments in ways that might persuade other large emitters to make similar binding commitments. We argue that for very large emitters, the climate issue does not evince the ‘global commons’ logic often attributed to it. Instead, since the…
Sistema internacional de hegemonia conservadora: O fracasso da Rio + 20 na governança dos limites planetários
Em um artigo seminal, Rockström et al. (2009) inauguraram uma nova forma de abordar os problemas ambientais. A abordagem das fronteiras planetárias aparece como um instrumento analítico fundamental para avaliar a governança global do ambiente e, em um sentido mais profundo, para refletir sobre o rumo civilizatório da humanidade. O nosso objetivo nesse artigo, é fazer uma avaliação da Rio+20 utilizando como critério a governança global das frontei…
Brasil na governança global do clima, 2005-2012: A Luta Entre Conservadores E Reformistas
A área de governança global do clima é definida por dois vetores básicos: poder e compromisso climático. O primeiro faz referência ao impacto de certos atores com capacidades suficientes para influenciar o social outcome climático. O segundo considera como a lógica da governança na área é definida pela dialética entre forças que assimilam o problema climático como crise civilizatória - reformistas - e forças que resistem às transformações necessá…
Brazilian climate politics 2005–2012: Ambivalence and paradox
Climate change has become a powerful social and political driver of our time. Within this context, progressive national and international societies are faced with a central challenge: how can reformist forces become strong enough to bypass the efforts of conservative forces and initiate a rapid and profound response to the climate crisis? This article reviews the politics of climate change in Brazil between 2005 and 2012 with reference to this ce…
Chinese energy policy progress and challenges in the transition to low carbon development, 2006-2013
If the world is not to jeopardize the chances for human life on Earth, climate change must be mitigated; therefore, achieving low carbon development is crucial. China is the world's greatest GHG emitter, energy producer and energy consumer; investigating its energy-climate policy developments and international positions are of utmost importance to understand and tackle current stumbling blocks of the global energy and climate governance
Brazilian Energy-Climate Policy and Politics towards Low Carbon Development
Climate change has proved to be one of the greatest threats to human survival on Earth. Its mitigation requires that the greatest Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emitters adopt low carbon development, reducing emissions substantially. Brazil is among them. Although deforestation is still the main source of Brazilian emissions, since 1990 emissions from energy systems and industrial processes have increased and their shares in total Brazilian emissions hav…
Wandering decarbonization: The BRIC countries as conservative climate powers
This article discusses the role of China, Russia, India and Brazil in the climate regime. It describes the trajectory of their emissions, of their domestic policies and of their international commitments, and argues that, despite their responsibility in causing the problem, they have been conservative forces in the climate regime
O Sistema Internacional No Antropoceno
No final do século XX e início do século XXI, uma nova época geológica teve início, o Antropoceno. Ele é caracterizado pela perda da estabilidade ambiental em razão da interferência humana, do impacto cumulativo do desenvolvimento econômico sobre o meio ambiente. A mudança é sem precedentes na experiência humana; mitigá-la significa assegurar uma existência mais segura para a humanidade. Essa mitigação, porém, requer concertação internacional mui…
Divergences Between New Patterns of Global Trade and Brazil/Mercosur
Although integration has been a part of South American discourse for decades, the level at which it is actually promoted remains far from that which is observed in dynamic production and trading centers. Given transformations in global trade, the phenomenon of global value chains is, in fact, very regionalized. We ask whether the trading pattern of Mercosur countries is aligned with approaches based on regional value chain, and if not, how it dif…
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: From International Environmental Politics to Global Governance
This article proposes a reflection on the challenges of global environmental policy in the Anthropocene. Firstly, the inconsistency between the institutions of international environmental policy and the progressive degradation of the planetary boundaries is highlighted. Secondly, it is stated that, since the transition to Anthropocene requires the conscious construction of a new space of safe operation for humanity, it is necessary to radically m…
Catastrophic Climate Risk and Brazilian Amazonian Politics and Policies: A New Research Agenda
Climate and deforestation impacts are jeopardizing the resilience of the Amazon rainforest, one of the key elements in the Earth’s climate system whose dieback may trigger catastrophic climate change. The potential degree of climate risk that the planet is facing, and current Brazilian Amazonian politics and policies, make it alarmingly conceivable that a tipping point will be crossed that leads to savannization of the forest. However, the social…
South–South Transnational Advocacy: Mobilizing Against Brazilian Dams in the Peruvian Amazon
South–South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ. This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydro…
Myths and images in global climate governance, conceptualization and the case of Brazil (1989 - 2019)
Countries have a self-image of their role in global climate governance. If that image does not correspond to the country’s actual level of climate power, commitment and leadership, it becomes a myth. In this article, we define climate self-images/myths and analyze comprehensively the Brazilian case between 1989 and 2019. For most of this period, Brazil’s self-image was a myth
Brazil ups and downs in global environmental governance in the 21st century
B razil's share of global carbon emissions, mega biodiversity, vast fresh water resources, large territory, large population, and significant economy characterize it as relevant actor in Global Environmental Governance (GEG), either alone or participating in groups such as the G-77, BASIC and the G20 The country has the power to harm the Earth System, but may also be an important catalyst for innovative answers to the challenges posed by the Anth…
De Lula a Bolsonaro: Una década de degradación de la gobernanza climática en Brasil
Brasil ha sido históricamente un actor relevante en la gobernanza global del cambio climático. A finales de los años 2000s, bajo la Presidencia de Lula, el país parecía convertirse además en un líder global, dando muestras de compromiso climático en varios niveles de análisis, con emisiones decreciendo y actores nacionales, subnacionales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y del mercado comprometidos con la mitigación. A 10 años de aquella eufor…
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