Abstract

This study aims at the analysis of the overall Brazilian participation in international environmental negotiations in the period from 1972 (Stockholm) to 1997 (Kyoto). Specifically, analysis of the environmental international conference, its objects and contents which provided the evolution of the sustainable development concept; to identify the Brazilian position in each conference, drawing a particular attention to the Brazilian negotiations for the environmental problems solution and finally an analysis of acceptance on the national level of the sustainable development concept and the progress of its inclusion in the Brazilian Environmental Policy. The theoretical reasoning is based on Realism, Liberalism and International Cooperation theories. The conclusion portrays, in addition to the evidence of the hypothesis and the goals achievement, that the discussion of the environment transferred to the international relations field realized fundamental conventions in search for a sustainable world; that the importance of the Brazilian performance in such addressed conferences served, besides mediation, as innovation in the development of concrete actions to the sustainable consolidation concept and, at last, that the analysis brought to the end of sections I, II and III encouraged the progress of the Environmental Political thought in the country. Based on the achieved results, it was suggested the profusion of new researches in order to highlight the importance of the environment in the context of international relations.

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