“Selo verde” da pecuária paraense: o socioambientalismo como uma possível alternativa de combate ao trabalho escravo e às mudanças climáticas

Abstract

Although essential to the Brazilian economy, livestock farming has serious social and environmental problems. Given this panorama, the search for greater sustainability should not neglect the human factor in this context, as, in addition to being one of the biggest agents for climate change, is the sector that most uses labor similar to slavery in Brazil. Given this, public policies that encourage good practices in this sector, such as the “Selo Verde” supplier tracking platform, implemented in Pará in 2021, present themselves as important socio-environmental mechanisms. Therefore, the question arises to what extent the socio-environmental criteria of the Selo Verde contribute or can contribute to the fight against climate change and the eradication of slave-like work in the livestock production chain in Pará?. In general, the objective is to determine, from a socio-environmental perspective, the effectiveness of the Selo Verde as a policy for tracking the livestock production chain in Pará and a way of combating climate change arising from illegal deforestation and the use of work similar to that of slave. Specifically, we intend to understand how contemporary slavery and climate change are related to the development imposed on the Amazon to achieve an alternative path to exploitation and dependence; delimit the conceptual aspects of quality seals and their importance for production chains, as in the case of the Selo Verde in the meat production chain in Pará; finally, verify the effectiveness of the Selo Verde in controlling climate change and eradicating work similar to slavery in livestock farming in Pará. It is. To do this, the hypothetical-deductive method and bibliographical survey of works on Environmental Law, Labor Law, sociology and political economy are used, as well as the collection of secondary data. It is concluded that the Selo Verde is a recent tracking platform and, consequently, has weaknesses, but which can be overcome with adaptations and improvements, and should be welcomed by networks combating contemporary slave labor and demanding environmental justice, a as it is yet another tool combined with the ratification of Human Rights and nature protection.