A GREEN RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE AMAZON

REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL BENEFITS

Abstract

In 2020, with the emergence of the sanitary crisis caused by covid-19 and the need for a strong state intervention in order to contain the virus and the worsening of the socioeconomic crisis, development plans/programs gained urgency and intensity. At the same time, the climate issue gets relevance as a result of increasingly frequent phenomena that accumulate deaths and social, environmental and economic damages in the four corners of the planet. In an attempt to develop public policies of a regional nature and considering socio-economic and environmental challenges, the Consortium of Governors of the Legal Amazon prepared and launched the Legal Amazon Green Recovery Plan (Plano de Recuperação Verde da Amazônia Legal – PRV), a proposal for regional development for the Amazon. This article intends to contribute to the debate on regional development, focusing on the Legal Amazon region, associated with the debate on climate security, in the context of the global and Brazilian crises. It is argued that, detached from a national project, regional efforts lack greater unity efforts with broad
national and international forces and sectors and, in this sense, the Consortium of Governors of the Legal Amazon and its PRV are examples of the use of paradiplomacy for regional development.