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This work analyzes the Agenda 2030 in its main potentiality to lead public policies and private actions towards a more sustainable path. At the same time it acknowledges its dependency on measurementsand finance mechanisms for the Sustainable Development Goals implementation. The main argument is that public expectations face difficulties to be translated in public actions, due to,among other factors, the lackof measurement and financemechanisms. With this purpose it starts describing what is the Agenda 2030, and how this United Nations lead international declaration is structured to be monitored and implemented by States and others multi stakeholders. Secondly it analyses the importance of the measurements to address critical social environmental challenges and to allow comparison between the achievements of each member state. Third it remarks the roleplayed by international financial institutions, by international investment and by the private sector in general. Forth, the article highlights the drawbacks the methodology of goals can represent when used to overcome collective challenges marked by moral issues and diffuse impacts, being

The formation of international institutions in the twentieth century occurs under a scenario marked by the rule of colonialism and imperialism. Thus, instead of reducing inequalities in the world system, international institutions reproduce a prevalent logic of material and subjective discrimination based on a colonialist ideology marked by violence, which is communicated in a certain way so that it can justify its importance and legitimacy. The colonial violence is perpetuated under the form of symbolic violence manifested in the language that imposes a universal meaning and systemic violence that manifests itself in the 'perfect' functioning of the world economic and political system as the ultimate form of development. One of the perverse and subtle dimensions of this violence is observed in the emergence of the International Environmental Law in terms of metanarratives that exclude minorities and perceptions other than the ones propagated by international institutions. The main objective of this article is to identify the dynamics in the formation of environmental treaties leading to standard results of discursive practices that feed the process of dependence and legitimation marked by colonial ruling and structural violence. The methodological approach relies on the critical theory tenets to expose the non-emancipatory features of current International Environmental Law. For that matter, this article applies the socio-legal approach to environmental treaties that consists of the analysis of text (law), subtext (the moral aspects of the law-deep or implicit meanings), and context (the undeniable connection between law and reality) in the search of empirical evidence. This task is performed using the computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CADQAS) called ATLAS.ti.

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<div><p>Este artigo se vale do método indutivo para desvendar as especificidades do conceito de civilização ecológica. A China tem envidado esforços para consolidar o princípio nas estruturas jurídicas nacionais e suas implicações na dimensão internacional. Tem como objetivo conectar e acompanhar o conceito de civilização ecológica à Iniciativa do Cinturão e Rota, mostrando, assim, que a ideia se projeta para a dimensão internacional como um novo modelo de desenvolvimento. No contexto da BRI, a civilização ecológica está associada ao desenvolvimento sustentável, ao desenvolvimento verde, à interação entre os mundos natural e social e ao acoplamento da natureza e da humanidade. A análise demonstra as implicações do princípio da civilização ecológica na governança internacional do meio ambiente por meio da Iniciativa do Cinturão e Rota.</p></div>