O PAPEL DA CERTIFICAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NA CONSECUÇÃO DO DESENVOLVIMENTO E CONSUMO SUSTENTÁVEL

THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION IN GUARANTEEING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMPTION

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss environmental certification. Initially it seeks to expose its emergence at the international level in the field of International Environmental Law as an environmental management tool. Subsequently, the importance of environmental certification from the economic tools is explained, specifically noting it as a positive externality, which must be introduced in the transaction costs, at which point value is added to duly certified market goods. Finally, the positive and negative points of adopting environmental “labels” are debated, concluding that, although there are negative aspects, certification is a very important tool for the achievement of sustainable development and consumption, since it helps to create a new rationality regarding the use of natural resources, typical of contemporaneity, warning of its exhaustion and noting the need to adopt measures to combat this problem arising from modernity. Thus, on the subject, a descriptive research, of an applied nature, using the bibliographic and documentary procedures, selected qualitatively, was carried out, based on the deductive method, in spite of the fact that it was not able to exhaust them