The Brazilian Panel on Climate Change at the interface between science and public policy: identities, geopolitics and epistemological conceptions
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Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, co-production, science-policy interface.Abstract
This paper seeks to comparatively examine two distinct projects to create a Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC). The first one consisted in the creation, by a group of Brazilian scientists, of a panel that mirrored the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Brazil. The second one was an attempt by a key climate policymaker to bring together renowned Brazilian climate scientists to produce scientific replies to IPCC drafts that contained data or theory contrary to national interests. These are both attempts to co-produce science and social order that implied in the production of different institutions and identities. They were also based on different epistemological views and representations of climate geopolitics. Based on this comparison I seek to advance Myanna Lahsen´s critique of the linear model of the interaction between scientists and policymakers. I argue that the climate science/policy interface in Brazil is not a collaborative space in which scientific data and theories flow in a non-problematic way to policymakers. Rather, this interface is an arena where different groups of actors dispute the production of distinct social realities.
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