Abstract
ABSTRACT The paper reports a study of Clean Development Mechanism implementation in landfills in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CDM is supposed to promote sustainable development through projects of GHG emission reductions. This analysis focuses on the power relationships behind the socio-political process of adopting the mechanism in landfills where emissions have been reduced by the breakdown of biodegradable waste. Sociological concepts such as ‘ecological practices’; ‘market’ and ‘environmental justice’ were used for the analysis. CDM’s neoliberal traits combined with local economic interests that shape the waste management domain in Rio can affect the mechanism’s capacity to promote local social-environmental progress.
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