Os créditos de carbono no brasil e sua regulação em face das empresas transnacionais como instrumento para a consecução da dignidade da pessoa humana

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the importance of regulation in the face of business activities by transnational companies in Brazil, specifically under the scope of the use of Carbon Credits, understood as environmental goods and how their use can impact the achievement of dignity of the human person. The study of the theme is justified by the great need for society's attention to environmental law due to climate change caused by human activities that directly impact the environment and begins with a brief analysis of the Brazilian concern for the environment, as well. as, the concept of sustainable development, entering the analysis of Brazilian legislation, especially the Federal Constitution, which has a rich framework for the subject under study, especially environmental goods, their destination and use, and also the environmental constitutional principles. It examines the development of business activity in line with the provisions of the Magna Carta and its regulation in view of the principle of protecting the environment and the possibility of using environmental goods by companies. In this context, the Carbon Credits, their emergence through the Kyoto Protocol and the advent of the Paris Agreement were evaluated, and we cannot fail to study in depth the Polluter Pays principle and paying attention to the realization of COP-26. Finalizing the study from the perspective of transnational companies and the performance of their activities in Brazil, with a focus on the regulation of Carbon Credits and their influence on the use by transnational companies and the impacts on human dignity. Through the use of the hypothetical-deductive methodology and the study procedure of constitutional provisions, legislation and bibliographies on the subject, as well as International Treaties, dissertations and relevant theses, it was concluded that the State's role in regulating economic activity, aiming at the defense of the environment, it presented significant results in the use of Carbon Credits, especially by transnational companies that operate in the country, indirectly reaching the constitutionally foreseen purpose of social justice and directly the dignity of the human person, already enshrined as a basic principle of the Republic Federation of Brazil.