New ways of thinking about infrastructure—sustainable and high-quality, implemented through appropriate mechanisms and managed throughout their entire life cycle—are seen as essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementing the Paris Agreement. The goal is to combine climate objectives with the creation of conditions to combat poverty and inequality.

In recent years, Brazil’s leading institutions and networks operating in the Amazon region have generated knowledge and sparked a series of discussions on the types of infrastructure needed for the region, in line with this global trend. The increasingly qualified debate emerging in Brazil encompasses more integrated and strategic visions for the future of the Brazilian Amazon and, within this framework, the role of infrastructure; recommendations for improving technical discussions about existing infrastructure to enhance decision-making; and more holistic and strategic conceptions of the very notion and typologies of infrastructure.

In this context, and motivated by the aim of contributing to more action-oriented and evidence-based decision-making, FGVces and WWF-Brazil established a partnership to generate information on existing and proposed infrastructure in the Amazon through the lens of territorial and sustainable development.

The objective of the research is to contribute to these ongoing debates by proposing a classification of socioterritorial infrastructures for the Brazilian Amazon, defining criteria for such classification, and qualifying aspects such as impacts, beneficiaries, governance, and financing, among other attributes.

FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP)

FGV Center for Sustainability Studies (FGVces)

Researchers: Kena Chaves/ Carina Gomes

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