Contabilidade Ambiental: proposta de contabilização dos créditos de carbono

Abstract

The environment, human being´s natural habitat, has been degraded with such speed that the planet is no longer capable to renew its natural resources. The climate change is felt in the weather changes, taking as an example the calamities that occur constantly in several countries involving hurricanes, flood sand the global warming. This study aims to investigate how carbon credits are formed, its accounting and management implications and propose a way of accounting for carbon credits in the companies´s financial statements. The approaches involving renewable and clean energy, craving to reduce the scale of carbon monoxide that is thrown in the planet´s atmosphere, have been a constant on the world stage, involving the agreement reached in Kyoto and its norms imposed to large economies, that is, the big polluters .From the year 2008, with the convergence of international accounting standards in Brazil, it is imperative breaking that boundary surrounding the climate change issue, clarifying the accounting of carbon credits. The methodology used was a literature review. The results show that the few existing accounting standards do not meet or standardize the subject in order to elucidate the same. In order to answer this question and mitigate the neglect of the companies by the subject, several studies were found in the current literature that formed the basis for a proposed model of accounting and disclosure of environmental values.