Authors: Ana Regina Rêgo (DX Advisor, Professor and Vice-Coordinator of PPGCOM, UFPI), Ana Carla Epitácio Mazzeto (PhD Candidate in the Postgraduate Program in Information Science, UFF), Claudia Pereira Galhardi (Scientist, University of Salamanca) and Nina da Hora (Executive Director of Instituto da Hora, Researcher at Recod.Ai Unicamp)
Climate misinformation in Brazil is revealed, among other factors, by the spread of the idea that there is an antithesis between preservation and development, which fuels questions about the real existence and severity of climate change, trivializes the risks of extreme events, and transforms scientific facts into a topic of ideological political debate.
The climate crisis is one of the greatest civilizational challenges of the 21st century. Its manifestations are multiple and unequal, intensely affecting the peripheral regions of global capitalism, such as Brazil, which concentrates invaluable natural resources but has historically been subjected to predatory dynamics. The country occupies a strategic position in mitigating climate change, but this leadership potential contrasts with a trajectory marked by environmental setbacks, institutional dismantling, land conflicts, and accelerated deforestation. The holding of COP 30 in Belém served as a catalyst for possible solutions to the climate crisis, but also for the proliferation of misinformation.
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