Protecting and adapting vulnerable Amazonian peoples and communities to climate change, although costly, is the most economical way to prevent environmental collapse and to shield Brazil from even greater losses resulting from the climate crisis, warns a policy brief prepared by researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute).
According to the document, investing now in adaptation and ecosystem protection, with a focus on Indigenous peoples and traditional forest communities, represents a lower cost than the projected socioeconomic damages, reinforcing the urgency of coordinated actions to avoid an ecological and social collapse in the region.
The researchers emphasize that such actions require investments to ensure socioeconomic resilience in the face of the climate crisis. In the Amazon, economic losses over the 30 years following the tipping point — the moment when the forest will no longer be able to sustain itself and will collapse — could reach 3.5 trillion dollars.