Amazonia holds the largest rainforest in the world with unparalleled biodiversity, abundant natural resources and home to almost 50 million people. The Amazonia region provides perfect ecological and social characteristics for Bioeconomy products and services to thrive, while Bioeconomy offers an alternative and transformative model to predatory forms of development that focus … [Read more...] about What is and what is not Bioeconomy? – An Amazonian perspective
Inaiê Takaes Santos
Inaiê Takaes Santos worked as a consultant at the Amazon Coordination Unit at the IDB, where she supports the management of funds and portfolio of operations related to Amazonia. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics. Prior to IDB, she led the Bioeconomy Working Group of Uma Concertação pela Amazônia, a multistakeholder initiative committed to the sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazonia. She was a Climate Protection fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS-Potsdam) where she investigated public policy implementation challenges for the Resource Nexus and how to overcome them, by focusing on the bioenergy sector. She has worked for different organizations supporting climate and environmental policies in Brazil, including Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).