Alternativas para o desenvolvimento de uma efetiva cultura socioambiental como compromisso social além do âmbito empresarial

Abstract

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the need for development of public policies, with incentive mechanisms on the part of the public authorities, in particular, by the municipalities, so that the business community may, upon any consideration, not only comply with the legislation, but also maintain communities sensitizing projects, with regard to care for the environment. Given the importance of environmental concern, not only in Brazil, but worldwide, there were several alternatives for the creation of some kind of effective not just aware the population, but that essentially promotes actual prevention and preservation of the environment, or at least, stimulate the conscious use of environmental resources. This form of protection should require a smaller negative human intervention in the environmental sphere, for which remediation is inevitable for the satisfaction of human needs and for the so-called sustainable development. For it became possible, today, the implementation and the adoption of instruments and environmental alternatives, in this sense, it is essential that companies are obligated to use means less degrading to the environment. Alternatively to inhibit production of goods polluters, the environmental taxes are being applied effectively in many countries. Their experiences have presented great consequences for the State, society, business and the environment, which should be widely studied and put into practice at the national level. It is important to highlight that these practices are permitted by extra taxation. Knowing the inability of most companies to undertake, in a manner fully ecological and not voluntarily, even if they do for any other reason, the State must do its role as interventionist in the economy, so that access to the "sustainable development" may be provided. It is important that companies and the State have environmental behaviors, because their attitudes involve the entire population, both Brazilian and also the world, i.e. all disasters and damage to the environment are reflected in men and even across the globe, with irreparable consequences. So that this awareness may be possible, one of the forms created to introduce the environmental defense in human conduct was environmental taxation, since that the tribute is a factor that may have dual function to pause the consequences in the environmental sphere of uncontrolled economic development and in the reality of current consumption, providing an alternative to the muchvaunted compatibility between economic development and environmental protection. Environmental taxation proves skillful instrument, easier and less costly control for all involved, since implemented according to the reality of each society and its legislation.