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Raoni Rajão

Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajão (August 1st 1981) is a Brazilian environmental scientist and associate professor in environmental management and social studies of science & technology in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil.[1] He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC)[2] and a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) in the U.S.[3] In March 31st 2023, Raoni Rajão was nominated Director of the Department of Policies to Deforestation and Burning Control of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, in Brazil,[4] becoming responsible for the plans to control deforestation and the REDD+ agenda.

He has been taking part in the international discussions about climate change and sustainability at United Nations Conference of the Parties since 2014[5][6][7][8] and, along his career, has collaborated with agencies of the United Nations,[9][10] Inter-American Development Bank,[11] and the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ).[12][13][14] He has advised Brazilian government employees regarding environmental policies.[13][12][14][15]

Career

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Rajão holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca(2005), in Italy, a Master's in Information Technology, Change Management (2007) and a Ph.D. in Organization, Work and Technology (2011) both from Lancaster University, in England.[2] In 2011, he started working as an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. There he founded, in 2012, the Laboratory of Environmental Services Management (LAGESA).[16] In 2022, he became vice-coordinator of the Centre for Remote Sensing (CSR) at UFMG.[17]  Rajão is also a professor at the Post-Graduate Programs in Production Engineering[18] and Analysis and Modeling of Environmental Systems[19] at UFMG.

Since his years as a Master's student, his work focuses on the relationship between science, technology and public policies, especially in the ones concerning environmental issues such as climate and deforestation.[2]

After publishing an article that exposed how much soy and beef contaminated with deforestation was exported from Brazil to the European Union in 2020,[20][21][22] Rajão and his colleagues started to work, in 2021, alongside the state government of Pará, Brazil, to develop SeloVerde Pará.[23] The public platform for transparency and traceability of supply chains has been recognized by the EU as a leading example initiative.[24]

Awards

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In 2022, Rajão and eleven colleagues received the Amílcar Herrera prize of the Latin-American Association of Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE) for the article "The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies".[25] The group found out evidences that a group of researchers led by Evaristo de Miranda was creating false scientific controversies that impacted negatively on Brazilian environmental and health policies.[26][27]

References

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  1. ^ "Equipe – Departamento de Engenharia de Produção". www.dep.ufmg.br. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  2. ^ a b c "Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajão – ABC" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  3. ^ "Raoni Rajão | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  4. ^ Diário Oficial da União. "Portarias de 31 de Março de 2023".
  5. ^ UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. "Provisional list of participants" (PDF).
  6. ^ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "List of participants" (PDF).
  7. ^ UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. "Provisional list of registered participants" (PDF).
  8. ^ UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. "Provisional list of registered participants" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Opções de Mitigação de Emissões de Gases de Efeito Estufa em Setores-Chave do Brasil".
  10. ^ "World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments | READ online". oecd-ilibrary.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  11. ^ "Latin American and Caribbean Forecasts in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities | Inter American Dialogue". globaltrends.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  12. ^ a b Projeto TEEB. "Experiências e Aprendizados: Conservação da Biodiversidade através da Integração de Serviços Ecossistêmicos em Políticas Públicas e na Atuação Empresarial" (PDF).
  13. ^ a b Rajão, Leomar, Melo, Botelho, Cisalpino. "Benchmarking Internacional: Prácticas y procedimientos gubernamentales para la toma de decisiones sobre inversiones en programas y proyectos de infraestructura" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ a b Consórcio GFA-WayCarbon-UBA Austria, Bittencourt, Brito, Rajão, Irffi, Cisalpino, Bürgi, Swartz, Mehling, Luedemann. "Produto 2 – Estruturação da Análise do Impacto Regulatório do Programa Nacional de Relato de Gases Efeito Estufa- PNR-GEE" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ Rajão, Soraes-Filho, van der Hoff, Nunes, Oliveira. "Resultados alcançados nas quatro fases do Plano para o Controle do Desmatamento Legal e Recuperação da Vegetação Nativa na Amazônia Legal – PPCDAm" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Quem somos – LAGESA" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  17. ^ Silva, Enise de Castro. "TEAM". Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  18. ^ "Corpo Docente". pos.dep.ufmg.br. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  19. ^ Najla. "Docentes". Programa de Pós-Graduação em Análise e Modelagem de Sistemas Ambientais (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  20. ^ Rajão, Raoni; Soares-Filho, Britaldo; Nunes, Felipe; Börner, Jan; Machado, Lilian; Assis, Débora; Oliveira, Amanda; Pinto, Luis; Ribeiro, Vivian; Rausch, Lisa; Gibbs, Holly; Figueira, Danilo (2020-07-17). "The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness". Science. 369 (6501): 246–248. Bibcode:2020Sci...369..246R. doi:10.1126/science.aba6646. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32675358. S2CID 220548355.
  21. ^ "A fifth of EU soy imports from Brazil could be tainted by deforestation, study says". Reuters. 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  22. ^ Strickler, Jordan. "Rotten Apples Could Spoil Brazilian Soybean Exports". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  23. ^ "Plataforma SeloVerde garante transparência no controle da cadeia da pecuária". Agência Pará de Notícias (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  24. ^ "Third Technical Dialogue: The use of traceability tools to increase sustainability in the beef and leather chain" (PDF).
  25. ^ "Acadêmicos são premiados por artigo contra falseamento da ciência – ABC" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  26. ^ "Falsas controversias deben refutarse activamente". América Latina y el Caribe. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  27. ^ "Rubens Valente - Estudo mostra como 'falsas controvérsias' do governo afetaram meio ambiente". noticias.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
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