The Cadernos do OIMC series, an ongoing publication of the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change dedicated to academic texts dealing with various aspects of the climate emergency, is launching its seventeenth volume: Europe-Brazil: mapping investments in the Legal Amazon, written by Prof Ana Paula Tostes and Luan Werneck-Costa. In the article, based on an investigation of project databases developed through international programmes and ongoing mechanisms, the authors seek to map Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), especially from the European Union and European countries, in the Legal Amazon region.

Tenured professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and recipient of the European Union’s Jean Monnet Chair (JMC-UERJ), Ana Paula Tostes teaches at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ) and the Department of International Relations (DRI-UERJ), coordinating the Laboratory for Teaching and Research in International Relations (LabRI-UERJ) and is a member of the OIMC’s Strategic Committee. An undergraduate student in International Relations at UERJ, Luan Werneck-Costa is a Scientific Initiation researcher at our Observatory and a member of the European Studies research group at LabRI-UERJ.

This is another edition of Cadernos linked to the Pan-Amazonian Governance, Climate Change and Sustainable Development project, a partnership between the OIMC, the Legal Amazon Geopolitical Studies Laboratory (LEGAL) and the South American Political Observatory (OPSA), funded by the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ) under the Amazônia+10 public notice. Bringing together researchers from the three research groups and specialists linked to higher education institutions in the Amazon region, the initiative is dedicated to investigating the perceptions, interests and actions of the different political players who have an impact on the sustainable development of the region. In addition to the monitors dedicated to the South American Amazonian countries (published by OPSA) and the Brazilian states in the region (published by LEGAL), the series published by the OIMC aims to analyse the agendas and interests expressed by extra-regional powers, intergovernmental organisations and multilateral forums in relation to the Pan-Amazon region.