The Amazon biome and the Paris Agreement

Cooperation and Governance

Abstract

A new conceptualization is proposed for approaching the relationship between the Amazon biome and climate change, particularly with respect to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the construction of a good climate governance. In that regard, the Earth and the Amazon are socialecological systems to be considered as two different but connected units of analysis and management of the problems described, and fundamental for the construction of resilience. In this context, the role of indigenous peoples of the Amazon as protagonists of the adaptation and transformation of the Amazonian landscape is highlighted, as well as the need to recognize that public policies must be coherent when integrating mitigation and adaptation policies in a transformative sense.