From 5 to 8 August 2024, the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change was part of the XIV National Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP), held in Salvador (BA), on the campus of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Federal University of Bahia (FFCH-UFBA).
During the event, which centred on the theme of Inequalities and Climate Justice: Challenges for Political Science in the Global South, our researchers were involved in various activities on the programme. On the meeting’s first day, OIMC coordinator Prof Carlos R. S. Milani taught the mini-course Climate Emergency: Governance, Justice and Transition alongside researchers Diogo Ives, Emanuel Semedo and Janaína Pinto, in partnership with Iyaleta – Research, Sciences and Humanities, which was represented by Diosmar Filho and Andrêa Ferreira.
On the 6th, our team presented three products of their research in sessions within the Thematic Areas (TAs) of the programme: The ‘greening’ of international human rights law: a path to climate justice? was presented by Danielle Costa da Silva in the session The Global Governance of the Environment (TA 13 – Panel 6); Climate Change and the Agricultural Frontier in the Amazon: Actors, Interests and Strategies Opposing the Reduction of Deforestation in Brazil, by Maria Isabel Santos Lima, was part of the panel The Foreign Policy of the Bolsonaro Government (TA 12 – Panel 4); and The Energy Transition in Dispute in the Brazilian State: political-bureaucratic coalitions and oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon, signed by Diogo Ives, Emanuel Semedo and Janaína Pinto, was presented in the session Climate Change and Environmental Policy (TA 5 – Panel 7). On the same day, Danielle Costa da Silva also debated the papers presented in the panel Environment and Sustainable Development in Latin America (TA 13 – Panel 5).
On the third day, researcher Janaína Pinto presented another paper, Climate Change and the Agricultural Frontier in the Amazon: Actors, Interests and Strategies Opposing the Reduction of Deforestation in Brazil, based on research for her doctoral thesis underway in the Graduate Programme in Political Science at IESP-UERJ, on the panel Energy Transition and Environmental Sustainability: Actors, Interests and Tensions (TA 11 – Session 5). Finally, on the closing day of the Meeting, Prof Carlos R. S. Milani coordinated the panel discussion The Politics and Policies of Climate Change in Brazil, featuring Eduardo Viola (UnB), Katiani Zape (UFBA) and Lucas Petroni (FGV-SP), with comments from Mahrukh Doctor (University of Hulll).
