This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal analisar a implantação do Protocolo de Quioto no Brasil, observando como as ações brasileiras estão sendo inseridas no contexto deste Acordo. Através dos projetos de Mecanismo de Desenvolvimento Limpo (MDL), o país participa como voluntário no...

This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

This study examines the importance of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) in increasing Brazilian fruit exports. The adherence of producers to VSS is crucial due to the sensitivity of these products to quality, food safety, and sustainability, especially for accessing developed importing...

The objective of this study is to verify the advantages and challenges of increasing certified cotton production and to analyze whether meeting the certification requirements guarantees Brazil access to the world market. As a way of answering these questions, data on the cotton production chain...

This article documents the presence of foreign firms in the sectors of energy and strategic minerals of the Brazilian economy. For this purpose, it was employed the information provided by the Brazilian Federal Revenue Office on it. The results indicated little importance for foreign companies....

This study analyzed the dynamics of the Brazilian soybean production chain, with the aim of understanding the position of producers/exporters in the sector in terms of production, foreign markets and the environment. In addition, the soy certification process through adherence to the voluntary...

The objective of this study is to analyze issues related to international coffee certification and to verify the advantages of increasing certified production, from the point of view of access to markets and price differentiation. At first, information was created on world and national...

This study investigates the growing of environmental compromises in international trade. The objective was to map the main trade policies with environmental objectives and identify which were the main countries that made environmental demands, the sectors most affected and the type of trade...

Due to the growing importance of environmental policies in the United States of America and the European Union, including the impact on international trade, the authors propose a comparative analysis of the rules and institutions that govern the environmental issue in these two actors. After...