The UN and the diffusion of sustainable development: the Brazilian case

The article seeks to identify empirically the impact of the international debate on development on the Brazilian government agenda. The objective is to deepen studies on the impact of the international environment on the formulation of public policies at home, specifically shed light on the process of shaping the governmental agenda in view of the international development agenda agreed in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. For this purpose, we use analysis of content to research three macro dimensions of sustainable development – social, environmental, and economic – in the newspapers of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. In terms of time frame, we defined the years 1992, when the country hosted Rio 92, and 2015, when the 2030 Agenda was adopted with the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. The analysis of textual data reveals a significant impact of discussions at the UN on the work of the legislature in Brazil