This article describes the Brazilian position on forests and climate change from 1997 to 2012. It argues that it has evolved from a veto, which excluded from the climate change regime emissions from the conversion of native forests, to a proposition, as Brazil offered its approach to the international community. It explains the change with domestic developments: governance over deforestation, the emergence of new and relevant actors, and presidential diplomacy.
A dissonância do quadro institucional brasileiro na Rio+20. o caso do clima e do código florestal * Brazil's institutional dissonance and its challenges for the Rio+20 conference
ResumoO objetivo deste artigo é analisar a coerência entre a política externa e a política doméstica brasileira em relação a temas de interesse para a Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável realizada em
AbstractThe first aim of this article is to assess how compatible Brazilian foreign policy and domestic policy related to sustainable development issues are at the very moment the Rio Conference took place. Trachtman, Keohane & Victor, and Hathaway were part of the theoretical framework to analyze two intertwined cases: climate change and the reform of the forest code. The main conclusion is that Brazil is experimenting a period of institutional fragility, notably due to the dissonance between the Legislative and the Executive powers concerning the easy adherence to multilateral environmental agreements and their difficult process to enact the legal rule as a national measure, and finally comply with them. As a consequence, the Brazilian international obligations are not necessarily followed by domestic measures, jeopardizing Brazil's capacity to honor its international commitments. The originality of this text consists of its interdisciplinary approach between law and international politics considering states and subnational actors.
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