On April 4, João Gabriel de Lima (ICS-ULisboa) will be the guest speaker at the RIGoP Research Group Seminar. This session's topic will be From Bolsonaro’s COPs to Lula’s COP: The Relationship Between Governments and Environmental Movements. The session starts at 11 a.m. in Room 2 of ICS-ULisboa and online.

Far-right Jair Bolsonaro’s climate change policies have united the environmental movement against him. Would the relationship between the government and environmentalists be different under a leftist government? Field research conducted at two climate conferences -- the COP 26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and the COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt -- has shown that the Brazilian environmental scene is extremely complex, with several different categories of actors. So, the answer is not so obvious.