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Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.pecon.2017.07.004

2530-0644

G. Wilson Fernandes, Mariana M. Vale, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Mercedes Bustamante, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Helena Godoy Bergallo, William E. Magnusson, Alberto Akama, Suelen S. Alves, André M. Amorim, Joaquim Araújo, Cláudia Franca Barros, Freddy Bravo, Marcelo J. Veiga Carim, Rui Cerqueira, Rosane G. Collevatti, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Cátia Nunes da Cunha, Paulo Sérgio D’Andrea, José Carmine Dianese, S.A. Diniz, Pedro Cordeiro Estrela de Andrade Pinto, Mariluce R.M. Fernandes, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, Luís Fernando Pascholati Gusmão, Flora Acuña Juncá, Ana Carolina Borges Lins-e-Silva, Célia Regina Lopes, Maria Lúcia Lorini, Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Márcia C. M. Marques, Bruno Martinelli, Marlúcia B. Martins, Hermes Fonsêca de Medeiros, Marcelo Menin, Paula B. Morais, Francisca Helena Muniz, Selvino Neckel‐Oliveira, João Alves de Oliveira, Reyjane P. Oliveira, Fernando Pedroni, Jerry Penha, Luciana Regina Podgaiski, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Aldicìr Scariot, Luís Fábio Silveira, Marcos Silveira, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, Marcos José Salgado Vital, Valério D. Pillar,

Economic and Environmental Valuation

In the middle of a political and fiscal crisis, the Brazilian government is applying successive budget cuts, including in science funding. Recent cuts radically affect research programs on biodiversity that are crucial components for the design and monitoring of public policies for nature conservation and sustainable development. We analyze the consequences of such cuts on the Research Program on Biodiversity (PPBio), the largest biodiversity research network in Brazil (626 researchers, nine networks in all Brazilian biomes). Brazil holds a substantial part of the world's biodiversity and of tropical forests that play a significant role for regional and global climate stability. If underfunding is maintained, the dismantling of the Brazilian PPBio will have consequences that go beyond biodiversity knowledge itself but affect society as a whole. Brazil will likely fail to reach the National Targets for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and it will be difficult to fulfill the restoration target of the Brazilian NDC and to advance with the sustainable development goals.