Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KARINNE BENASSULY DE MELO

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STUDENT : KARINNE BENASSULY DE MELO
DATE: 31/07/2024
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual
TITLE:

Government planning for climate change adaptation and energy efficiency in the brazilian climate policy

KEY WORDS:

Energy policy; energy efficiency; government planning; climate adaptation.

PAGES: 192
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The subject of this paper is the discussion of energy efficiency policy as part of Brazilian environmental policy. In this context, it analyzes the redesignation of the Brazilian state's role as a driver of economic activity in the energy industry in order to integrate energy efficiency and climate change adaptation policies. The energy sector is one of the economic sectors that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions in all its stages of energy generation, transmission, distribution and use, as well as causing socio-environmental conflicts from the expansion of energy supply and infrastructure at national, regional and local levels. As an economic activity of strategic importance for Brazil, the energy sector has the challenge of restructuring itself to ensure sustainable energy security to meet the country's current and future needs, making up the framework of sectors essential to sustainable development and to the realization of the constitutional right and duty of the Brazilian state to preserve an ecologically balanced environment. In view of this, the issue is about the obligation to include public policies on energy efficiency in climate planning at federal, state and municipal level, within the limits of their environmental competencies. The initial hypothesis is that the state is carrying out energy efficiency actions linked to environmental conservation, but that these measures are not sufficient to mitigate or adapt to the country's climate commitments. With regard to the general objective, the aim is to investigate the inclusion of energy efficiency as a sustainable parameter for climate mitigation in the control of energy sector activity at all levels of government. To this end, the specific objectives consist of: 1) structuring the legal relationship between energy, sustainable development and adaptation to climate change; 2) outlining the Brazilian state's duty to have an energy efficiency policy, with its guidelines and bases for action; 3) mapping the national, state and municipal climate policies of Brazilian capitals, checking their respective approaches to the issue of energy efficiency. The relevance of this study is justified by its topicality, socio-environmental relevance and link to goals 7, 12 and 13 of the 2030 Agenda. In terms of methodology, the study is of an applied nature, with a qualitative approach, whose objectives are developed in exploratory and descriptive terms. The procedural techniques adopted were documentary, bibliographical and jurisprudential research. The results show that Brazilian climate policy has associated energy efficiency initiatives with its agenda as a parameter for mitigating climate change by reducing the pollution potential of the energy sector. However, it is structured in a heterogeneous way between the federal entities, indicating a lack of alignment of public policies, although there is concentrated action in the Union. There are technical, institutional and financial disparities in the structuring of energy efficiency measures in states and municipalities, including the absence of climate planning in certain regions and capitals, which indicates the importance of improving this policy beyond the federal level.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 1254860 - FABRICIO GERMANO ALVES
Interna - 1753603 - PATRICIA BORBA VILAR GUIMARAES
Presidente - 1298976 - YANKO MARCIUS DE ALENCAR XAVIER