Radical Reorganization of Environmental Policy: Contemporaneous Evidence from Brazil

An overview of environmental policy in Brazil since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019 suggests that the rise to power of a new political elite has led to a radical change in Brazil's trajectory of climate change initiatives and environmental protection. The new elite is associated with the disruption of two factors historically relevant for the design of environmental policy: the participation of civil society in the governance of public policy and multilateralism in matters of environment policy. Uma analise das politicas ambientais brasileiras desde a tomada de posse de Jair Bolsonaro da presidencia da Republica em Janeiro 2019 constata que o aparecimento de uma nova elite politica acarretou em uma alteracao radical na trajetoria do Brasil com respeito as suas iniciativas sobre a mudanca climatica e a preservacao ambiental. Houve uma perturbacao de dois fatores por causa desta elite politica que eram historicamente importantes pela elaboracao de politicas ambientais: a participacao de organizacoes de sociedade civil na governanca de politicas publicas e o multilateralismo.