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STUDENT : ELTON EMANUEL BRITO CAVALCANTE
DATE: 30/05/2025
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Via EAD - auditório virtual usando GOOGLE MEETING - https://meet.google.com/edn-gcrf-ojk
TITLE:

ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL-ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN THE 2030 AGENDA AND THE DIMENSIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

KEY WORDS:

 

 Agenda 2030, environmentalism, capitalism, democracy, culture.

PAGES: 227
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Multidisciplinar
SUMMARY:

The object of this work is the analysis of the report Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, approved by the UN in 2015. As this document is the result of a polarized
political-economic context, it was found that there are tacit or explicit neo-Marxist values that refer to the
disruption of the Western mental paradigm or, on the contrary, such values serve only as a reaffirmation

of capitalist expansionism. Initially, the researcher thought that the document was essentially neo-
Marxist and that it had tacit principles that violated liberal values. However, after analyzing the data, he

came to the idea that the sustainability advocated by the 2030 Agenda, in economic terms, propagates
a capitalism similar to that proposed by Keynes, regulated, developmental and tending to increase the
taxes to guarantee social assistance; in political terms, it disseminates the models of democracy and the
rule of law recognized in the West as ideals for environmental preservation; in cultural terms, it
appropriated the discourses of anti-capitalist and neo-Marxist groups, especially those originating from
the Frankfurt School, and used them as a spearhead to undermine patriarchal and conservative
societies, which are far from the notion of sustainability, political-cultural liberalism and capitalism. The
theorists who guided the research were Adorno and Horkheimer (2006), with their notions of culture and
social control; Vidal (2020), with the idea that sustainability spreads an already decadent democracy;
Dias de Oliveira (2024), with the opinion that the 2030 Agenda is neoliberal in customs, conservative in
economics; and Murray (2022), with the concept that there is an attempt to destroy the pillars of
Western culture. As a research method, socio-analytical-hermeneutic (Reale, 2002) and Voloshinov's
notions of ideology (1979) were used. This method allowed an analysis taking into account three
dimensions: the factual, the evaluative and the normative. Considering that the first refers to the material
and socio-political phenomena that preceded the norm; the second dimension concerns ethical and
moral principles and conflicts, contradictions, oppositions and dissent that guide and push social
behavior, based on the perception of facts, towards achieving the norm; finally, the normative, which
would be the normative or assembly text itself and the influence or power it has in achieving its
objectives. Using a data collection technique, a table was created in which the values inherent to each
of the 169 goals contained in the 2030 Agenda were crossed, with the aim of verifying whether they
responded negatively or positively to the research problem. As a result, the following conclusions can be
said to have been reached: a) In economic terms, the messages of the 2030 Agenda propagate a
capitalism regulated by the State, which plays a major role in the policy of increasing and distributing
taxes to support political minorities and finance sustainable development. They contribute to the
expansion of the Western model of social democracy and the rule of law, through a biased policy of tax

incentives, transfers and increased taxes to finance social benefits; b) thus, when it comes to the socio-
cultural issue, the Agenda disseminates a culture close to neo-Marxist values, especially those

originating from the Frankfurt School, which were adapted to serve as a mere instrument in favor of the
expansion of capitalism and the Western mentality, interfering in conservative and patriarchal cultures
(Vidal, 2020); c) In environmental terms, the 2030 Agenda considers anthropogenic global warming as
an absolute and unquestionable truth, and renewable energy as a vital way to save the planet. However,
it does not point to the total elimination of the energy matrix based on fossil fuels, although it calls on
nations to change them as soon as possible.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1466944 - FABRICIO MORAES DE ALMEIDA
Interna - 2363379 - GLEIMIRIA BATISTA DA COSTA MATOS
Interno - 3063165 - DIEGO HENRIQUE DE ALMEIDA
Externo ao Programa - 1109299 - DELSON FERNANDO BARCELLOS XAVIER - UNIRExterno à Instituição - RICARDO LUIZ SILVEIRA DA COSTA - UFES
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ ROBERTO DE SOUZA DE ALMEIDA LEITE - UnB
Externo à Instituição - RAFAEL AYRES ROMANHOLO - IFRO