Avaliação das fontes potenciais de financiamento para projetos de caráter ambiental relacionados aos ODS no Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss the sources of financing currently available in Brazil for projects that contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) identified as having an environmental character. The text begins by presenting the context of emergence and Agenda 2030, and the Theory of Change that bases the planning and evaluation of the SDG. Next, the data of the Catalog of Potential Funding Sources for Projects related to the SDGs of Environmental Character, constructed from bibliographical and documentary research, through searches on the websites of the main stakeholders involved in the financing of development in Brazil, are analyzed. Potential sources of funding were analyzed according to the SDG influenced, nature of the financing agent, financing instruments, institutional profile of potential beneficiaries, and the existence of relevant sustainability criteria for the granting of financing. The main results were that (i) most of the borrowers are private agents; (ii) most of the available sources are loans; and (iii) the main sources of funding are public. This indicates that selectivity should be increased in the selection of projects through the inclusion of sustainability criteria, especially with public sources of resources, but it is also necessary to reconcile environmental sustainability goals with business profitability. Lack of coordination between different donors, and systematizing funding information for ODS should be a systematic and routine task in the implementation of Agenda 2030.