The panel sought to reflect on how, over recent decades, large transportation, energy, mining, and logistics projects have been implemented in the Amazon without adequately considering socio-environmental impacts and without dialogue with affected communities.<\/p>\n
The prevailing logic in these discussions treats the forest, rivers, and ecosystems as inputs for infrastructure, without recognizing that they themselves constitute the vital infrastructure for life, ignoring ecological and sociocultural connectivity and traditional ways of living. In this sense, infrastructure projects planned as \u201ctransport corridors\u201d often fragment territories, cause deforestation, violate the rights of Indigenous and traditional peoples, and generate territorial conflicts. The lack of transparency, social participation, prior assessment of cumulative or synergistic impacts, and the absence of less harmful alternatives in the planning and licensing stages of such projects were also highlighted in the discussion.<\/p>\n