Sustainability In Brazil

Under the Special Secretariat of the Environment, framework was established to mirror that of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In 1974, the Industrial Pollution Control and Prevention Law identified major metropolitan regions as environmentally critical which in turn made SEMA in charge of the zoning guidelines. A year later, additional legislation was passed to refine the state’s responsibilities in environmental management and enforcement by allowing city and state governments to regulate industrial and manufacturing operations. The following year, in 1976, the establishment of national air standards were developed to monitor and regulate particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon

On the surface, Brazil does not appear as a country ravaged by poverty however, portions of it are; and its environmental stability is an enormous factor of this. In 2000 the United Nations concocted a plan to assist countries like Brazil; thus the Millennium Development Goals emerged. In essence, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs for short) are a set of targets set to challenge extreme poverty across the globe. As Brazil is not a ‘traditional’ country in the subject of poverty so a specific target had to be included for it to fit in with the MDGs. Target 9 includes two factors: the amount of land covered by forest and the protection of biodiversity, which pinpoint Brazil as a country in need. In Brazil, tourism and the need for lumber are dwindling both the biodiversity of the country, as well as cutting down on the area of land covered by forest. Therefore, Brazil’s ecology and demand for resources cause it to be looked at as a country in need, despite its modernization being equivalent to the rest of the world. With this being said, Brazil’s ecosystem has remained relatively unaffected by change in the last two decades. It will be challenging for Brazil to achieve the seventh Millennium Development Goal of ensuring environmental stability due its lack of a strong governmental structure, a dwindling economy, and the miniscule amount of groups assisting Brazil.

Brazil is a hybrid nation with a population comprising of many different cultural, racial and ethnic groups. According to the CIA World Factbook, as of the year 2000, 53.7% of Brazilians identified themselves as White, 38.5% as mixed white and black, 6.2% as Black, and the remaining 0.16% as other or unspecified, including the Amerindian people (1). In general, Brazilians trace their origins to four main sources: Amerindian, African, European, and Asian. Beyond the use of race as a social construct, there are several different categories that people use

In a very common way of thinking, the average person believes that in order for poor countries to develop, environmental concerns must be sacrificed before poverty is alleviated. As a representative of Brazil where poverty is a problem (21.4% of our population 200.4 million) and the large area of rainforest is a home to many species, we today need to understand that this is a problem for all nations. Sanitation, deforestation, and lack of shelter are all things that contribute to the need of natural resources. I think of it as: A person who is not impoverished will go to the store to buy the food they need. The store sources the food from the company and the company gets the food from, farms, nature etc. If you are impoverished you will go

Brazil is home to varied geographical features such as rainforests, Highlands, and long stretches of Coastline (Brazil.org). Brazil is the largest country in South and central America and the fifth largest country in the world (Wikipedia). Along with such a large size comes a large population filled with different backgrounds and histories. These people's history plays a major role in many of their current aspects of daily life in Brazil. Many events have affected Brazilians but some have much greater impact on todays condition of the country. Portuguese control over Brazil and the formation of Brazil's new constitution has played major roles in Brazil's current political, social, and economic state.

What will you do is the planet is about to end? Brazil is located in the South America and it is one of the largest country in both South and Latin America. So, how does globalization impacts the environment in Brazil and how affect us? It is because it has the world’s largest tropical forest: The Amazon. The word globalization, it is a worldwide movement that implies the economy, financial, trade and communication integration.

A country with a small history of civil war and civil disorders, plenty natural resources and vast land area and that has millions of people eager to work. That’s Brazil’s intrinsic

In this era of sustainable development, companies have realized the importance of adopting a corporate social responsibility and contributing their part in the development of environmental sustainability in the community that they are a part of. However, what is interesting to note is that many companies have found the

Environmental experts generally agree that if Brazil does not restrain its uncontrolled environmental destruction, both the country and the world will suffer devastating consequences. Most experts believe that the damage is irreversible, and it is hard to dispute this claim (Rich, 1999). They also point out that the damage will not be restricted to the physical environment, but will have

and corporate social responsibility (CSR)”. Business need to transform for sustainable development. “CSR” is not only an empty talk which is also become the determinate factor of a company. “Jacoson and Nelson(2004) take more of a how-to approach, offering a principle-based framework for mastering what they called ‘new rules of the game’.” (Alessia, 2009) CSR of business began to wake. “There is growing sense that looking after the people and the community as well as the environment are all relevant to long-term business survival.” (Alessia, 2009) As the CSR become a esthetic standard and sustainability standard for a business, companies focus more on triple bottom line-people, profit and planet-also could definite as environmental, societal and business arenas. CSR is a start to lead business to sustainability. It is more likely a principle to measure companies’ ethics and sustainability. Berkhout indentified some challenges for companies under the CSR principle. “How to balance its social and environmental responsibility with its economic responsibility to

The goal of this report was to learn more about a global company’s sustainability strategy and understand how it relates to its international operations. Our

Sustainability and business are not always looked as a good functioning pair. Businesses often struggle to implement sustainability measures, as they think that it is costing money to shareholders/investors. However, due to increasing pressure from the public, businesses are being forced to reconsidering at adopting sustainability and good business practice. In today's interconnected global economy, the long-term goals and success of business are inevitably connected by embedding the environmental, social and governance issues into corporate management, operations and supply chain. While corporate sustainability recognizes that, though the corporate growth and profitability are vital, it also requires the corporation to pursue societal goals, particularly those relating to sustainable development like; safeguarding environmental, social equality and economic development.

Despite the friction among developed and developing countries to reach an agreement for the UNFCCC, Brazil has committed to reduce GHG emissions voluntarily. The unique capacity of Brazil to curb GHG emissions on large scale is based on hydropower, biofuels experience and solid deforestation policies in the Amazon Rainforest . These are facts that have positioned Brazil as a green economy model which commits to reduce 36.1 per cent of its green house gas GHG emissions by 2020. The largest contribution of GHG emissions comes from deforestation and land-use-changes (LUC) representing 58 percent . Brazil 's strong conservation policies introduced in 2000s have controlled deforestation and it is expected to reduce it in 24.7 per cent of total emissions by 2020 . The energy sector, on the other hand, despite being one of the cleanest energy of the world, might face challenges since the oil and gas sector projected increase of 75% by 2020 . Even though the energy sector accounts for 16 per cent of GHG emissions, in the following years this fact might reverse the downward trend of GHG emission levels of the country .

Globalisation has been a prevalent issue and a wide trending discussion topic. It is defined as, “a complex economic, political, cultural, and geographic process in which the mobility of capital, organisations, ideas, discourages, and peoples has taken on an increasingly global or transnational form.” (Moghadam, 1999, p. 376). This globalisation phenomenon has built the interrelationship between national markets and industries into worldwide arena. Thus, the trend towards global markets, global production and global competition has been occasioned by the interdependence growth between national economies (Brooks, Weatherston & Wilkinson, 2004). Therefore, in consequence of emerging globalisation, it has impacted the international business organisations; the way international business operating the business practises has changed. The nature of macro-environment based on political, economic, technological, environmental and legal areas is required to be measured and analysed by business organisation, specifically for international firms in order to set the strategy and look for the opportunity and threat. One of the elements of globalisation changes is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The concept of CSR nowadays is becoming more crucial as many international business organisations have been

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