Título:	A agenda ambiental de povos indígenas, afrodescendentes e comunidades locais : entre o pensar local e o agir global
Autor(es):	Sousa, Francisco Octávio Bittencourt
Orientador(es):	Franco, José Luiz de Andrade
Assunto:	Mudanças climáticas Autodeterminação dos povos Justiça socioambiental
Data de publicação:	29-Jun-2026
Data de defesa:	27-Fev-2026
Referência:	SOUSA, Francisco Octávio Bittencourt. A agenda ambiental de povos indígenas, afrodescendentes e comunidades locais: entre o pensar local e o agir global. 2026. 367 f. , il. Tese (Doutorado em Desenvolvimento Sustentável) — Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2026.
Abstract:	This thesis examines the participation of Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant populations, and local communities (IPLCs) in global environmental governance and the construction of their own environmental agenda, focusing on the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) between 1992 and 2024. The study is organized into three decades of political evolution, highlighting tensions, advances, and setbacks in the inclusion of these groups in international decision-making processes. The research adopts a historical-ethnographic and documentary methodology, inspired by authors such as Clifford Geertz and Carlo Ginzburg, who apply ethnographic principles to the analysis of historical processes. Three main archives were mobilized: the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), the collections of the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and Cultural Survival (CS), as well as documents produced by the IPLCs themselves, including reports, notebooks, and hybrid publications. Selection criteria considered temporal relevance (1992-2024), thematic pertinence (COPs of the CBD, UNFCCC, and UNCCD), and the centrality of IPLCs. Given the discrepancies among the conventions-with the UNFCCC being the most visible and well-documented, the CBD pioneering but less mobilizing, and the UNCCD marginal until recently-the study employed source triangulation, combining cross-reading, political contextualization, and critical theorization. The first decade, following Rio-92, was marked by the consolidation of a new global environmental regime and the struggles of IPLCs for space and recognition, amid mechanisms that were still consultative and weakly binding. The second decade was characterized by the expansion of market-based solutions, such as REDD+, which intensified disputes around socio-environmental safeguards, biopiracy, and traditional knowledge, while the UNCCD sought to assert relevance despite its institutional marginality. The third decade revealed a multidimensional crisis and the decline of multilateralism, evidenced by the failure to meet targets such as those set by the Paris Agreement and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, as well as the tacit acceptance of advancing desertification, continuous biodiversity loss, and warming above 1.5°C. In the recent period (2022-2024), despite the dominance of fossil fuel lobbying in several COPs, signs of hope emerged, such as the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and the renewed prominence of the CBD at COP16 in Cali (2024). Nevertheless, persistent funding bottlenecks, weak safeguards, and gaps between formal recognition and practical implementation remain. Based on this trajectory, the thesis demonstrates how the global environmental agenda of IPLCs was gradually constructed around six main axes: (i) recognition and effective participation in decision-making processes; (ii) guarantee of territorial rights and collective autonomy; (iii) pursuit of climate and financial justice; (iv) protection of traditional knowledge against commercialization and biopiracy; (v) social control over high-risk technologies; and (vi) formulation of autonomous responses to climate, desertification, and biodiversity crises.
Unidade Acadêmica:	Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CDS)
Informações adicionais:	Tese (doutorado) — Universidade de Brasília, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, 2026.
Programa de pós-graduação:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Agência financiadora:	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Aparece nas coleções:	Teses, dissertações e produtos pós-doutorado

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