O DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL DA AGROPECUÁRIA NO ESTADO DE GOIÁS À LUZ DO PROTOCOLO DE QUIOTO

Abstract

Throughout this thesis the author examines the issue of global warming and argues that the agricultural activity, the way they are being developed, is responsible for a major escalation, due to high rates of emission of greenhouse gases resulting from forest fires, usually performed in order to increase the area used for agriculture or livestock, as well as enteric fermentation in cattle and the decomposition of animal wastes. To alleviate this problem is vital that farmers start to build on this economic activity with emphasis on environmental protection, because only through the balance between economic growth and social development and environmental protection is that if you speak of sustainable development. In order to encourage this new approach (paradigm shift), the Kyoto Protocol and the National Policy on Climate Change play a fundamental role, since, if farmers solve their properties deploy the Clean Development Mechanism under the Protocol, what can be done through afforestation and / or reforestation of devastated areas and projects for limiting emissions of methane, and contribute significantly to reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, farmers will still receive so through the sale of carbon credits. As the state of Goias occupies a prominent place in national ranking, with respect to agricultural and livestock production, there are many entrepreneurial opportunities available to ranchers Goias.