Premiações socioambientais e venda de carbono da usina hidrelétrica Teles Pires

O paradoxo do desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development has been appropriated by business sectors and applied in the development policies of so-called developing countries, as is the case of Brazil. In line with this perspective, mechanisms of financialization of nature are created, such as socio-environmental awards to hydroelectric plants that sell a public image of solution to crises, such as the energy crisis, without impacting the environment. This paper proposes an analysis of the paradox between the idea of sustainability defended by the Teles Pires Hydroelectric Plant, on the Teles Pires River, through socio-environmental awards received and carbon sales, and the various critical manifestations about the environmental impacts and violations of rights that it caused and causes to the Apiaká, Kayabi and Munduruku peoples of the Tapajós basin, which places it within the contours of neodevelopmentalist and neoextractivist actions.