Brazil and its disarranged climate policy towards COP 27

Abstract

In recent decades, the issue of climate emergency began to permeate Brazilian environmental policy. Due to its high biodiversity and environmental importance to the world, Brazil started to create and manage public actions to combat climate change and adapt and regulate extreme weather events (JACOBI e ARRUDA FILHO, 2021). Historically, the National Climate Change Program was created in 1996, the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change (FBMC) in 2000, and the National Climate Change Policy (PNMC) of the Interministerial Commission on Global Climate Change in the following years. In parallel with this, Brazil’s participation in the COPs has always been proactive and purposeful, with the country having gained prominence in several of the meetings, especially in the proposal to create the Clean Development Fund, an embryonic idea of the later Clean Development Mechanism, the current base of the Carbon Credits Market in the world.