A diplomacia da energia : os biocombustíveis no Brasil e a construção de seu marco jurídico regulatório internacional

Abstract

Energy is considered essential resource for improving the living conditions of people and their access is highly relevant to the promotion of development. Given the duty of energy production to sustain human activities, a predictable oil shortage in the coming years, the importance of finding new sources of energy and concerns about the environment, countries have formulated policy programs and legal standards aimed adjust the formatting of this production, distribution and consumption of energy. Brazil stands out in this scenario with important production center for renewable energies and has signed dozens of bilateral treaties for your encouragement. Given this position, the job title is to discuss the construction process of the international regulatory legal framework for the production of biofuels from Brazilian diplomatic experience and see how Brazil can contribute with other countries which have as their goal the increase of energy matrices through new renewable energy sources. Therefore, the theoretical studies pertaining to the subject matter, production policies developed between the 1970s and early 2010s, and, finally, the set of bilateral treaties that deal with the topic. In discussing the strategic role of biofuels in the Brazilian energy matrix world from their international regulatory legal framework, shows how Brazil can cooperate with other countries that also idealize the production of renewable energy.