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non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society and companies. Despite their
global nature and universal applicability, the SDGs dialogue with regional and local
policies and actions, requiring several levels of participation.
All UN who signed the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris (December 2015)
have committed themselves to important initiatives within the SDGs. They agreed to
discuss, elaborate and propose public policies, new partnerships and strategies aimed
at promoting more sustainable patterns of production and consumption. According to
Grossi (2017, p. 53) “stronger international cooperation involving understandings of
effective mechanisms to promote technological innovation and technology transfer is
a prerequisite for efforts universalization”. Brazil is one of the countries who signed
the Paris Agreement and, therefore, must commit to the achievement of the SDGs. As
one of the responses, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA in the Portuguese
language acronym) created the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration or,
simply, ‘A3P’. This program aims to stimulate public agencies in Brazil to implement
sustainability practices and focuses on the:
[…] sensitization of public managers to socio-environmental issues, encouraging them to
incorporate principles and criteria of environmental management into the routines of public
administration, through: the promotion of actions that demonstrate the rational use of natural
resources and public goods; adequate waste management; quality of life in the work environment; minimum environmental impact and maximum comfort for users in construction,
sustainable bidding/green procurement, and the process of continuous training of the public
employees (MMA 2009, p. 9).
Thirteen years after the creation of the ‘A3P’ program, in this same spirit, Normative Instruction n. 10 of 2012 established rules for the elaboration of Sustainable
Logistics Management Plan. This plan allows Brazilian public institutions to establish practices of sustainability and rationalization of expenses and processes (MPOG
2012). According to Decree 7746/2012, which established the obligation of all entities of the Federal Public Administration, autarchic, foundational and state-owned
companies to prepare their Sustainable Logistics Management Plans, the following
guidelines of sustainability should be observed:
I—Adopt procedures that cause less impact on natural resources;
II—Give preference to materials, technologies and raw materials of local origin;
III—Use natural resources such as water and energy more efficiently;
IV—Provide greater generation of jobs, preferably with local workforce;
V—Provide longer life and lower cost of maintenance of the goods and the work;
VI—Use technological innovations that reduce the pressure on natural resources;
and
VII—Make use of the resources that have environmentally regular origin of the
natural resources used in the goods, services and works (Brasil 2012, Art. 4).
Environmental management perceives a new thinking that needs to be accompanied by changes in perceptions and new practices at the micro level: from expansion
to conservation, from quantity to quality, from domination to partnership, from reactive management to pro-active management. It is based on the premise that public
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non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society and companies. Despite their
global nature and universal applicability, the SDGs dialogue with regional and local
policies and actions, requiring several levels of participation.
All UN who signed the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris (December 2015)
have committed themselves to important initiatives within the SDGs. They agreed to
discuss, elaborate and propose public policies, new partnerships and strategies aimed
at promoting more sustainable patterns of production and consumption. According to
Grossi (2017, p. 53) “stronger international cooperation involving understandings of
effective mechanisms to promote technological innovation and technology transfer is
a prerequisite for efforts universalization”. Brazil is one of the countries who signed
the Paris Agreement and, therefore, must commit to the achievement of the SDGs. As
one of the responses, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA in the Portuguese
language acronym) created the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration or,
simply, ‘A3P’. This program aims to stimulate public agencies in Brazil to implement
sustainability practices and focuses on the:
[…] sensitization of public managers to socio-environmental issues, encouraging them to
incorporate principles and criteria of environmental management into the routines of public
administration, through: the promotion of actions that demonstrate the rational use of natural
resources and public goods; adequate waste management; quality of life in the work environment; minimum environmental impact and maximum comfort for users in construction,
sustainable bidding/green procurement, and the process of continuous training of the public
employees (MMA 2009, p. 9).
Thirteen years after the creation of the ‘A3P’ program, in this same spirit, Normative Instruction n. 10 of 2012 established rules for the elaboration of Sustainable
Logistics Management Plan. This plan allows Brazilian public institutions to establish practices of sustainability and rationalization of expenses and processes (MPOG
2012). According to Decree 7746/2012, which established the obligation of all entities of the Federal Public Administration, autarchic, foundational and state-owned
companies to prepare their Sustainable Logistics Management Plans, the following
guidelines of sustainability should be observed:
I—Adopt procedures that cause less impact on natural resources;
II—Give preference to materials, technologies and raw materials of local origin;
III—Use natural resources such as water and energy more efficiently;
IV—Provide greater generation of jobs, preferably with local workforce;
V—Provide longer life and lower cost of maintenance of the goods and the work;
VI—Use technological innovations that reduce the pressure on natural resources;
and
VII—Make use of the resources that have environmentally regular origin of the
natural resources used in the goods, services and works (Brasil 2012, Art. 4).
Environmental management perceives a new thinking that needs to be accompanied by changes in perceptions and new practices at the micro level: from expansion
to conservation, from quantity to quality, from domination to partnership, from reactive management to pro-active management. It is based on the premise that public