Brazilian Legal Time of Sustainable
Development: a Short Term View
in Contrast with Agenda 2030
Carlos Luiz Strapazzon and Clarissa Bueno Wandscheer
Abstract Brazil’s commitment with SDG might be mere demagoguery without a
suitable regulatory framework to grant the continuity of actions in long cycles of
policies. This paper explores the existing contrast between the Brazilian model of
planning its policies and the view of AGENDA 2030. The significance of the time of
development has emerged with MDG Agenda, but it seems to be even more relevant
nowadays. In both Agenda, goals and targets have a 15-years duration. Such guideline was meant to implement goals progressively, avoiding setbacks. This paper is
aimed at presenting the time, form and somehow the substance inherent to Brazilian
regulatory model of planning public policies as well as underline legal barriers existing therein to achieve sustainable development goals. In doing so, it points out three
major legal obstacles: (1) the one-dimensional meaning of sustainability noticeable
in such regulation, (2) the weak regulation of Agenda 2030 and (3) the legal model of
planning development, usually limited to 4-year cycles. It is argued that the Agenda
2030 will fail in Brazil should a new model of regulation suitable with innovations
required to implement ODS in 15-year cycles is not set out.
Keyword Brazil · Sustainable development · Discontinuity of public policies ·
Narrow sense of sustainability
1 Introduction
From 1824 to 1988, Brazil has experienced the worse aspects of the so called third
world and the best of the so called first world. Together, as a dialectic pair, both have
C. L. Strapazzon (B)
Law School, Universidade Positivo, Unoesc, R. Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza,
5300-Campo Comprido, Curitiba-PR CEP 81280-330, Brazil
e-mail: carlos.strapazzon@up.edu.br
C. B. Wandscheer
Law School, Universidade Positivo, R. Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza, 5300-Campo
Comprido, Curitiba-PR CEP 81280-330, Brazil
e-mail: clarissa.wandscheer@up.edu.br
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_21
363
Development: a Short Term View
in Contrast with Agenda 2030
Carlos Luiz Strapazzon and Clarissa Bueno Wandscheer
Abstract Brazil’s commitment with SDG might be mere demagoguery without a
suitable regulatory framework to grant the continuity of actions in long cycles of
policies. This paper explores the existing contrast between the Brazilian model of
planning its policies and the view of AGENDA 2030. The significance of the time of
development has emerged with MDG Agenda, but it seems to be even more relevant
nowadays. In both Agenda, goals and targets have a 15-years duration. Such guideline was meant to implement goals progressively, avoiding setbacks. This paper is
aimed at presenting the time, form and somehow the substance inherent to Brazilian
regulatory model of planning public policies as well as underline legal barriers existing therein to achieve sustainable development goals. In doing so, it points out three
major legal obstacles: (1) the one-dimensional meaning of sustainability noticeable
in such regulation, (2) the weak regulation of Agenda 2030 and (3) the legal model of
planning development, usually limited to 4-year cycles. It is argued that the Agenda
2030 will fail in Brazil should a new model of regulation suitable with innovations
required to implement ODS in 15-year cycles is not set out.
Keyword Brazil · Sustainable development · Discontinuity of public policies ·
Narrow sense of sustainability
1 Introduction
From 1824 to 1988, Brazil has experienced the worse aspects of the so called third
world and the best of the so called first world. Together, as a dialectic pair, both have
C. L. Strapazzon (B)
Law School, Universidade Positivo, Unoesc, R. Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza,
5300-Campo Comprido, Curitiba-PR CEP 81280-330, Brazil
e-mail: carlos.strapazzon@up.edu.br
C. B. Wandscheer
Law School, Universidade Positivo, R. Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza, 5300-Campo
Comprido, Curitiba-PR CEP 81280-330, Brazil
e-mail: clarissa.wandscheer@up.edu.br
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_21
363