AMAZON DIALOGUES - Economics, Deforestation, Global Justice - Amazon Week

The Department of Economics at SOAS and the Embassy of Brazil in London have joined forces to organise the event Amazon Dialogues, a series of three panels bringing together policymakers, academics and civil society organisations to discuss the challenges faced by the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest.

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest is undoubtedly a key global challenge. However, international discussions about the biome are often hampered by exoticising views and misunderstandings about the potential for equitable global coordination. Amazon Dialogues aims to contribute to fruitful conversations by bringing together policymakers and government officials from Brazil and Colombia, as well academics and civil society organisations with extensive experience in the region. The panels will focus on economic challenges, deforestation and global justice.

Agenda

1pm-1:30pm

Opening Session

Antonio Patriota – Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom

Elisa Van Waeyenberge – Dean of the College of Social Sciences, SOAS University of London

Fernando Rugitsky – Senior Lecturer in Economics, SOAS University of London

1:30-3:00

Panel 1: Sustainable economic transformation: assessing alternative policies

Cristina Reis – Extraordinary Secretary for Carbon Markets, Ministry of Finance (Brazil)

Giuseppina Siciliano – Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development, SOAS University of London

Yannis Dafermos – Reader in Economics, SOAS University of London

3:00-3:20

Coffee Break

3:20-4:50

Panel 2: Zero deforestation: how to achieve it?

Humberto Freire – Director for the Amazon and the Enviroment, Federal Police (Brazil)

Gregory Thaler – Associate Professor of Environmental Geography and Latin American Studies, University of Oxford

Lara Shirra White – Earthsight

4:50-6:20

Panel 3: Tropical rainforests and global climate justice

Laura Sarabia Torres – Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom

Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor of International Development, LSE

Laura Waisbich – Deputy Director of Research, Igarapé Institute

6:20-6:30

Closing remarks

Fernando Bastos – Embassy of Brazil, London

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Khalili Lecture Theatre, Torrington Square, London, United Kingdom

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