Climate governance is frequently organised around scientific expertise that informs policy responses to the climate crisis. However, the production and mobilisation of evidence are embedded within historically constituted hierarchies of knowledge and epistemologies that shape which knowledge is recognised as legitimate in environmental decision-making. This project investigates how such hierarchies are reproduced, negotiated, and potentially transformed within processes that connect climate science and public policy in the Amazon.

Taís Sonetti-González is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Science and Technology Policy (DPCT) at the State University of Campinas (Brazil), within the AmazonFACE programme, the world’s first large-scale Free-Air CO₂ Enrichment experiment in a tropical rainforest. She works at the interface of science, policy, and society. Her research examines how scientific evidence and diverse knowledge systems circulate, are recognised, and are mobilised in climate governance. It also investigates how knowledge from the AmazonFACE experiment interacts with policy processes and how more inclusive approaches to knowledge co-production may lead to more just and sustainable climate policies.