INFORMATION REGIME AND COP30’S SILENCE: AMAZON MOUTH PETROLEUM EXPLORATION

FOZ DO AMAZONAS

Abstract

This article analyzes how the information regime that shaped the timid outcomes of COP30 is reproduced in the public debate on environmental licensing for oil exploration in the Foz do Amazonas Basin. Based on qualitative, bibliographic, and documentary research, the concept of information regime is used to examine disputes among actors, documents, technical data, institutional discourses, and economic interests that structure the controversy surrounding block FZA-M-59. The article argues that COP30 consolidated a rhetoric of climate implementation, environmental justice, energy transition, and Amazon protection, while producing moderate results in relation to the centrality of fossil fuels. The same logic appears in the debate on the Equatorial Margin, where oil exploration is framed as a strategy for energy security, regional development, and financing the transition itself. The study concludes that the Foz do Amazonas case reveals a political-informational inconsistency between the climate rhetoric projected internationally and the energy practices sustained nationally.