This work presents a proposal for political and economic direction to be taken in Brazilian industry. This proposal suggests going back to a time of of environmental sustainability as a strategic position in international competitiveness, which would serve as an alternative in combatting the current process of deindustrialization in the country. Brazil should leverage its leadership in certain areas such as sustainable energy production and availability of natural resources in order to redirect the industrial process through the use of an economic policy that integrates environmental issues and the need to reindustrialize the economy. For this to occur, government action is paramount and must initiate and regulate the process. The state must also provide the main financial support of this project, which would combine a new environmentally sustainable industrial policy with changes in monetary and exchange policy, so that actions taken can be truly effective.
Deindustrialization; Sustainable re-industrialization; International competitiveness; Industrial policies
