The Amazon is central to international debates on climate change, framed both as a vital carbon sink (‘lungs of the world’) and a contested space for green capitalism. Global and local policies have turned the region into a site of financial speculation, greenwashing and geopolitical negotiation.
However, these discourses often obscure the severe humanitarian crises unfolding in the region, where environmental degradation intersects with systemic violence and displacement. It is a zone of ‘necropolitics’, environmental racism and sacrifice zones. Yet it is also a space of resistance.
