“Not even a millimeter more” An analysis of Brazil’s government’s discourse on Indigenous Peoples’ land rights and possible consequences
While environmental change calls for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, evidence shows that land owned by Indigenous Peoples have much lower rates of deforestation. The federal government in Brazil, however, is taking measures to increase economic benefits of indigenous lands in the Amazon, which could result in weakened IPs’ land rights. In this thesis I analysed Brazil’s president’s s