Neutralidade de carbono: reflexões sobre estratégias e oportunidades para o Brasil

Abstract

There is a strong world mobilization, led by the United Nations (UN), to neutralize net carbon emissions until 2050, aiming to limit global warming to the maximum of 2ºC by the end of this century. In the industrialized North hemisphere, governments and international entities elaborate programs based on a radical change of the world’s production and consumption of energy system to meet this challenge. From a brief assessment of this change, which reveals its adherence to the reality of the energy systems and emission patterns of the nations from the North, this article presents a discussion on the Brazilian particularities and the opportunities that might emerge from a strategie custom-made to the reality and potentialities of the country, without compromising the goal of carbon neutrality and contributing to the sustainable generation of jobs and income.