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Topic:Environment
By far, the most important environmental issue in Brazil concerns the Amazon region. The Amazonian biome—the most expansive, continuous forest in the world—is spread out across eight different countries, covering over 4.1 square million miles. While the future of the rainforest is an issue of global significance, with over 65 percent of the forest within Brazil’s territorial domain, Brazil bears much of the responsibility for its preservation and sustainable development.
The Brazil Institute has organized several conferences and projects that center on the Amazon and environmental sustainability in Brazil. This topic section provides access to these activities.
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News
Special Reports
Infrastructure Integration and Environmental Preservation in the Amazon
 The Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)—conceived during the 2000 Meeting of South American presidents—is meant to forge links between all South American countries by integrating three strategic economic sectors: transportation, energy, and telecommunications. To discuss these pressing issues, on January 16, 2008, the Brazil Institute and the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) and Latin American Program co-sponsored a half-day seminar to assess the potential impacts of infrastructure projects planned or underway in the Amazon region. Click here to download this publication.
Discussion Briefs
A Converstation with the Governor of the State of Mato Grosso, Blairo Maggi
 In an effort to provide Brazilian leaders with greater exposure to the Washington policy community and advance understanding of Brazilian issues in the United States, the Brazil Institute held the fourth interactive forum of its ongoing leadership discussion series with Governor Blairo Borges Maggi, of the state of Mato Grosso, which has part of its territory in the Amazon biome. The intent of Maggi’s visit to the United States was to highlight his administration’s efforts to balance and produce positive results for both forest conservation and economic development. Click here to download this publication.
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Events
Amazônia Photography Exhibit
Friday, August 29 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The exhibit was on display at the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies through August 29, 2008. A seminar and reception was held on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
The exhibit showcased the dazzling and conflicting images of the Brazilian Amazon and the faces of its people, captured by photographers from the Brazilian daily newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo.
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Leadership Discussion Series: A Conversation with Governor Blairo Maggi, of the state of Mato Grosso
Tuesday, June 10 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A successful politician and businessman, Governor Maggi is a key actor in
the ongoing debate over how to balance development and environmental protection in the Amazon—an issue recently dramatized by the resignation of Minister of the Environment Marina Silva, a champion of the environment movement. Maggi holds a degree in agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Paraná. He represented Mato Grosso in the Senate before being elected governor in 2002 and is currently serving his second term as governor, after winning reelection in 2006.
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Infrastructure Integration and Environmental Preservation in the Amazon
Wednesday, January 16 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, The Heinz Center
Timothy J. Killeen, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International and author of the CI report on IIRSA
Gustavo Fonseca, Head of the Natural Resources Management Team of the Global Environment Facility and Vice President of Conservation International
Mauro Marcondes-Rodrigues, IIRSA Coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank
Carlos Nobre, Director of the Center for Climate Studies and Weather Forecasting and Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Space Research of the Brazilian Government
Pedro Bara-Neto, Director, Amazon Project of the World Wildlife Federation
Felipe Cruz, Coordinator of Strategies and Programs in Sustainable Development, Construtora Norberto Odebrecht
Marcelo Lessa, Senior Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation
Francisco J. Wulff, Principal Executive of Analysis and Sectoral Policies, Andean Development Corporation
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Innovations and Challenges in Environmental Policy
Wednesday, September 21 2005, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Brazilian Minister of Environment Marina Silva speaks on government actions and policies to curb deforestation, dismantle illegal logging rings, and fight corruption among federal employees accused of collaborating with loggers in exchange for bribes.
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Environment, Development and Sustainability:
Monday, June 21 2004
 Co-sponsored with The Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Project and The John Heinz III center for Science, Economics and the Environment the Director of INPA José Antônio Alves Gomes discussed his organization’s role in the progress of sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon as well as his Institute’s plans for the future.
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Brazil Institute
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: brazil@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4030
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