LAW 13.576/2017 AND THE NATIONAL BIOFUELS POLICY: AN ANALYSIS OF ITS
EFFICIENCY TO DRIVE THE BRAZILIAN ENERGY TRANSITION TO A LOW CARBON
ECONOMY AND MEET BRAZILIAN TARGETS IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT
Paris Agreement; RenovaBio; NDCs; GHG Emissions.
As a result of the growing global concern with climate change and the increase in the
number of related environmental disasters, the member countries of the United Nations
under the United Nations Framework Convention signed the Paris Agreement in 2015,
and committed themselves, through its Nationally Determined Contributions, to limit the
increase in global average temperature to 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels. Brazil, a
signatory country to the Paris Agreement, has committed to reduce greenhouse gases
by 37% below 2005 levels in 2025, and by 43% below 2005 levels in 2030 increasing
the participation of sustainable bioenergy in its energy matrix to approximately 18% by
the year 2030. To achieve these goals, it created, through law 15.576/2017, the
RenovaBio: National Biofuels Policy that seeks the sustainable expansion of the
biofuels market and in addition to aiming to achieve the Brazilian goals in the
Agreement, it aims to encourage the expansion of the national biofuel market with a
focus on regular supply, in addition to market predictability, which motivated the
preparation of this dissertation, where it was an analysis was made of the law and its
tools based on it being obtained by the ANP, and the subsequent comparison of the
amount of supply of Greenhouse Gases in the previous year. or and after its
implementation, as a way to measure its effectiveness in achieving the Brazilian goals
in the Paris Agreement through its PADs, as well as a comparison of the strategic axes
of the largest biofuel producers to achieve their goals.