‘Should the international community try and influence Brazil’s environmental policies?

International communities should be able to influence Brazil’s environmental properties because the environmental issues in
Brazil also affect the world, According to conservation.org “The continued conversion of Brazil’s tropical forests has widespread
consequences for the climate. The Brazilian Amazon holds high concentrations of climate-warming greenhouse gasses
collected over hundreds or even thousands of years.” If they are lost, all that carbon will be released into the atmosphere.

When the environmental issues of a country affect the world, the world should be able to help the country come up with
solutions to reduce the environmental issues.

There is an international organization called OECD which holds an important “repository of international data and indicators on
the environmental, economic, financial and social dimensions of climate change”. The repository supports climate action and
OECD policy analyses to help countries design and implement effective policies to achieve net-zero emissions.

Some of the ways that Brazil can help themselves are

Connect the Amazon rainforest’s economic policies with Brazilian climate goals.

Brazil could show the international community it takes the Amazon deforestation problem seriously by strengthening its NDC.

According to wri.org The country, an emerging economy, has a very different pattern of emissions when compared to
high-income countries where most CO2 emissions come from the energy sector. It has a high share of hydro-renewables in
electricity production, accounting for more than 64% of electricity generation, and the largest chunk of emissions comes from
the Land Use sector, with more than 70% of emissions related to agriculture, deforestation and fires.

2nd

Brazil does not need to chop down new areas of forest to maintain its livestock production. Instead, new studies show that
recovering degraded “pasturelands” could boost Brazil’s capacity to produce meat while scaling massive restoration and
regeneration of native forests.

Third, attract green investments for the Amazon region.

Finance is another crucial reason for Brazil to keep up with its climate commitments and protect the Amazon rainforest. The
country has the expertise to reduce deforestation. To do so previously the government has worked with civil society as well as
the federal police, “created the Plan for the Prevention and Combating of Deforestation in the Amazon, and conditioned finance
and rural credit to compliance with the Forest Code, among other measures. Additional resources should come through
transparent, climate-smart financing.”

Finally, create new ways to include local communities.

The current economy of the Amazon rainforest is mostly extraction-based and the main source of income for local communities
is turning forestland tograss, crops and logging. However, from newscientist.com studies show deforestation does not
translate into well-being for people living in the Amazon, nor does reducing deforestation jeopardize agricultural production.
There are methods to increase production without destroying the forest, like the recovery of already degraded areas.

So I'd say that Brazil doesn’t really need International community to influence them in their environmental policies because they
can do it themselves through the steps I have stated.

https://www.wri.org/insights/strategies-amazon-rainforest-climate-action-brazil

https://www.conservation.org/blog/3-ways-brazils-environmental-decisions-impact-the-world

https://www.123helpme.com/essay/The-Pros-And-Cons-Of-The-International-751860

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17298-amazon-deforestation-leads-to-economic-boom-and-bust/

https://www.oecd.org/environment/country-reviews/OECD-EPR-Highlights-inEnglish-light.pdf