Amazônia e política externa brasileira: análise dos índices de desmatamento nos governos Lula e Bolsonaro

Abstract

The international protagonism of the Amazon has gained ground in Brazil's foreign policy and the rate of deforestation in the region is one of the indicators of this importance. Due to the importance of the Amazon, the federal government needs to justify the increase in deforestation and present plans to reduce these rates. From the need to understand this situation, this paper aims to analyze the foreign policy actions developed for the Amazon in the Lula (2003-2010) and Bolsonaro (2019-2022) governments, focusing on forest management, considering the beginning of historical monitoring series, in 1988, made by the Amazon Deforestation Calculation Program. In addition, the discussion also contemplates Brazil's performance within the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. The results of this survey show that the lowest continuous rates of deforestation occurred between 2005 and 2011, while the highest deforestation rates were registered in the years of 2019 to 2021.