Abstract
From the perspective of climate ethics, this article proposes to analyse the Payments for Environmental Services (PES) at the local (case study in São Paulo) and national (National Plan for Payments for Environmental Services) dimensions. The practices observed in these Brazilian political arenas were assessed via content analysis; From the guiding principles of political action, we analyse the dynamics of public policymaking actors in the light of categories such as planned naturalness, decision-making plurality, generational benefit, energy location and access to knowledge and material (PLANB Index). The final considerations refer to the urgency of public climate policies aligned with a normative ethical horizon, which must consider local perspectives as the starting point that helps the fulfilment of multilateral global agreements.
Keywords:
Climate ethics; climate justice; ethical-political disputes; payments for environmental services; brazilian national PES policy
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Note: Circles in red express cosmovisions (the ontological dimension) and principles (the ethical dimension) centered on non-humans and humans as a continuum of Nature. Blue circles represent configurations of principles (e.g., anthropocentrism, biocentrism, geocentrism). Finally, violet circles represent practices that emerge from the united ontoethical dimension, intertwined with the political dimension and its different scales. Source: The authors.