Campaign financing and environmental crimes: CIPÓ comments report findings in new interview

Ilustration: Amazon deforestation

In an interview for ((o))eco website, published on September 16th, 2022, our researchers, Gabrielle Alves and Renata Ribeiro, called attention to financing of political campaign’s by environmental defenders.

Analysing Brazil’s 2018 elections, CIPÓ concluded that 156 of the 422 candidates who received donations from environmental offenders were elected in 26 Brazilian States. A larger number of them proposed bills with potentially negative socio-environmental impacts/

The main practical result [of such campaign donations] relates to their impact on environmental crimes’ impunity

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Plataforma CIPÓ is an independent, women-led policy institute focusing on climate, governance, and peacebuilding in Latin America and the Caribbean and, more generally, the Global South.

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