The increase in environmental and related crimes in Brazil is related to a process of weakening and dismantling of legislation and environmental agencies, which in the last decade — and, in particular, since 2019 — has suffered unprecedented budget cuts and reductions in personnel nationwide .
Who says this is the senior researcher at CIPÓ Flávia do Amaral Vieira, in an article for Le Monde Diplomatique. According to her, this context favored the rise of criminality, reflected, for example, in the expansion of illegal mining in Indigenous Lands, with serious consequences for local populations and the environment, as was clear in the humanitarian crisis affecting the Yanomami people.
Accountability in all links of the chain, from extraction to consumption, should be understood as a priority for the construction of a context that promotes sustainable development and climate justice in the Amazon.
A recent study by CIPÓ, authored by Vieira and Luísa Falcão, highlighted international cooperation as one of the effective mechanisms for preventing and coping with the scenario of expansion of environmental crimes. Download the publication here.
