Como não deixar o Brasil para trás? Uma transição energética para o Brasil

Abstract

The scientific community supports the understanding that anthropogenic activities are responsible for climate change, especially since the establishment of combustion engines in the production chain. These modifications are consequently correlated with the utilization of fossil fuels. Therefore, the present work aims to examine how a transition to the use of clean energy modals will safeguard the survival of human communities. In particular, it will be discussed how the Brazilian legal framework embraces energy transition through its rules, policies, and decisions. During the work, it was established what is an energy transition and how it presents itself in several points of history. Then were named principles that ca guide this object and help to understand the need for its establishment. In its chapter, policies adopted in Brazil to promote energy matrices of low climate impact were assimilated. Biofuels, hydropower, wind power, photovoltaics and green hydrogen were highlighted. Finally, it establishes the role of international public law as a driver of policies to mitigate climate effects, with emphasis on the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.