Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

CUNHA, Kamyla Borges da, WALTER, Arnaldo Cesar Silva, VARELLA, Fabiana Karla de Oliveira et al. MDL como instrumento para o desenvolvimento sustentável?. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 09 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

The intensification of the greenhouse effect, caused mainly by the anthropogenic activities, such as the intensive use of fossil fuels, reveals itself as a challenge to governments and international organizations. The institution of an international legal framework, resulted from the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, is allowing the development of some mitigation instruments, such as the clean development mechanism (CDM). The article's purpose is to assess the social and economic aspects that are leading to the climate change process and to analyze the instruments foreseen in the international legal system to face this global concern, in special, the CDM as a tool to achieve sustainable development practices. In this way, the authors aims to demonstrate the connection and interdependence between those instruments and the sustainable development.

Keywords : Mecanismos de desenvolvimento limpo; mudanças climáticas; Protocolo de Quioto; desenvolvimento sustentável.