An Overview of Environmental Policies for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change and Application of Multilevel Regression Analysis to Investigate the CO 2 Emissions over the Years of 1970 to 2018 in All Brazilian States

Anny Key de Souza Mendonça, Silvio Aparecido da Silva, Luísa Zeredo Pereira, Antonio Cezar Bornia and Dalton Francisco de Andrade
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Anny Key de Souza Mendonça: Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Silvio Aparecido da Silva: Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Luísa Zeredo Pereira: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Antonio Cezar Bornia: Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dalton Francisco de Andrade: Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 21, 1-18

Abstract: Background: Brazil, one of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries in the world, emitted approximately 2 billion gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in 2018. This data is practically the same recorded in the previous year, suggesting that the country’s trajectory of CO 2 emissions is stabilized. Methods: This study presents an overview of environmental protection and climate change mitigation policies adopted in Brazil, as well as makes use the multilevel regression modeling technique to investigate the relationship between economic activities variables in relation to CO 2 emissions over the years of 1970 to 2018 in all Brazilian states. Results: The results show that the CO 2 emissions in the states have the same behavior as the timeline of the change in land use. Conclusions: The public policies and actions by society and the private sector were fundamental to the reduction verified from the year of 2004 that followed until 2010, both in CO 2 emissions and in the change in land use and forests. As of this year, there has been a trend towards stability in CO 2 emissions. Another important characteristic is that even with a drop in the number of deforestation, the production variables continued to grow, which shows that there may be an increase in production activities, while there is a reduction in deforestation and in CO 2 emissions.

Keywords: environmental protection policies; climate change; ABC Plan; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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