Preços de mercado e política: o dilema brasileiro para a redução do desmatamento

Abstract

The environmental discussion has been advancing throughout the world at same pace as the urge to stop the global warming. For this reason, the International Community has been promoting discussions about this subject. In 2015 the Paris’ Agreement established the environmental goals to be achieved by the countries up to 2025 and 2030. Brazil is one of the signatories of this Agreement and has identified that the deforestation of Amazon is its main environmental issue. The present study proposes to evaluate actions and policies made by the Brazilian government to stop the deforestation in the Legal Amazon from 2000 to 2020. This objective was achieved by a literature review about the deforestation and a secondary dataset. The results show that Brazil did not have a plan for deforestation control until 2004. Between 2004 and 2011 it has changed, when the government was successful in controlling and preventing deforestation. From 2011 on the efficient policies were discontinued year by year and legislative defeats were imposed to the environmental matter, causing Brazil to reach high levels of deforestation once again. In the end, we suggest other approaches that may contribute to understand the deforestation in Legal Amazon.