On 31 March 2025, the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change will team up with the Laboratory of Geopolitical Studies of the Legal Amazon (LEGAL) and the South American Political Observatory (OPSA) to hold the seminar Governance and Development of the Pan-Amazon in Face of Climate Change, at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ). From 9am to 6pm, the event offers three panel discussions made up of researchers associated with the Pan-Amazonian Governance, Climate Change and Sustainable Development project to discuss the partial results of the inter-institutional initiative which, since July 2023, brings together representatives from the three research groups with experts from the Federal University of Acre (UFAC), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), the Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP) and the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR). The activities will be held in person, in the Olavo Brasil Room, with a live online broadcast on the Institute’s YouTube channel.
Programme
9h – Opening session
- Fernando Fontainha (IESP-UERJ)
- Ana Toni (Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change)
10am – Panel 1: Subnational Politics and the Environmental Issue in the Amazon: the Cases of Acre, Amapá and Pará
- Moderator: Fabiano Santos (IESP-UERJ)
- Luci Maria Teston (CFCH-UFAC)
- Ivan Henrique de Mattos e Silva (CCCS-UNIFAP)
- Rodrigo Dolandeli dos Santos (PPGCP/UFPA)
- Screening of the documentary Viver para a terra: o caso de Rondônia
2pm – Panel 2: Climate Change and the Challenges of Regional Integration: the Perspectives of ACTO, Brazil and Colombia
- Moderator: Maria Regina Soares de Lima (IESP-UERJ)
- Marianna Albuquerque (IRID-UFRJ)
- Diogo Ives (IESP-UERJ)
- Júlia Furtado Reis (IESP-UERJ)
4pm – Panel 3: Extraregional Powers in the Pan-Amazon between Co-operation and Strategic Interests: the European Union, Norway and the USA
- Moderator: Diogo Ives (IESP-UERJ)
- Ana Paula Tostes (IESP-UERJ) e Luan Werneck (RI-UERJ)
- Maria Isabel Santos Lima (IESP-UERJ)
- Lucas de Oliveira Paes (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
The seminar is meant to be a space for sharing reflections on the political governance of the Pan-Amazon in a year in which the region will be at the centre of the world’s attention as it hosts, in Belém, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change 2025 (COP-30) next November. Funded by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), as part of the Amazônia+10 call for proposals, the Pan-Amazonian Governance, Climate Change and Sustainable Development project is investigating the perceptions, interests and actions of different political actors with the power to influence sustainable development in the Pan-Amazon region, in order to understand the relations of cooperation and conflict between them and assess the possibilities and limits of polycentric, multi-scalar or multi-level governance in the region.
