CIPÓ researcher Gabrielle Alves was the first specialist interviewed on the “Brazilian Environmental Racism” series, produced by ClimaInfo. In the interview, Alves reflects on the themes of environmental and climate racism and their direct link with structural racism in the Brazilian context.
Alves explains how these types of racism apply to the daily lives of vulnerable population groups, leaving them exposed to unhealthy experiences and insecurities in the urban environment.
A city that doesn’t fight against environment racism acts in favor of necropolitics.
Gabrielle Alves to ClimaInfo
Alves also addresses institutionalized racism, social perceptions of Apartheid in Brazil, and the impacts of late, passive, and disorderly industrialization in the country.
Finally, she speaks on the feedback process between climate change and urban dynamics, and identifies concrete ways to fight against environmental racism, such as the Escazú Agreement, “first regional environmental agreement of Latin America and the Caribbean about public participation and access to justice in environmental affairs.
