Under the perspective of having to tell new stories about the future, the significance of the environment and its role in the global development challenges of the XXIst Century express the political contemporaneity of the environmental agenda. [...] Another example comes from the China Meat Association and its recent signature of a manifesto supporting the conservation of the Brazilian Cerrado, in an initiative that seems to illustrate the interest of a consumer market in minimizing environmental impacts associated to food production, as was the case in Brazil with the soy moratorium and the will to halt deforestation in the Amazon. [...] The scope of the environmental approach goes beyond the traditional vision of the environmental impact of infrastructure projects and is also based on positive environmental externalities, on global sustainability with the implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on the conservation of biodiversity and addressing climate changes through mitigation and adaptation. [...] China possesses the instruments and expertise to help Brazil build a robust project pipeline that initiates with a comprehensive diagnostic phase, capable of anticipating the evaluation of risks and alternatives, and promotes the integrated action of the various institutions involved in the process, improving public investment governance and the territorial and environmental governance of the regi. [...] Brazil has the installed capacity and the environmental assets needed to propose a clear set of norms and standards for the environmental sustainability of infrastructure projects, which, if transposed from the bilateral relationship to the BRI and regional integration projects, can contribute to increase the ambition of the global sustainable and natural infrastructure agendas.
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