Minister of the Environment referred to the new framework of environmental licensing, bill 2.159/2021, approved by the Senate on Wednesday (21)
The Environment Minister, said on Thursday (22), that environmental licensing in Brazil “suffered a blow to death.” It referred to the new landmark of environmental licensing, Bill 2.159/2021, approved by Wednesday (21). “We can not even back down a centimeter in the agendas that Brazil has already advanced, including environmental licensing, which has now been a blow to death,” said Marina soon, but inflamed intervention, during an event of the ministry in partnership with the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), in Rio de Janeiro.
“Brazilian society has the opportunity to give political sustainability for environmental licensing to be maintained. This is a language that we politicians understand,” he said. Alongside BNDES President Aloizio Mercadante, Marina said that, on the environment, there are not only enough command and control actions, but also measures on other fronts, such as the economic.
“We need to act on different fronts. One of the fronts we work is that of economic instruments. It is not just a matter of saying what can be done, we must establish how it should be done,” she said. During the event, the Ministry of the Environment signed an agreement with BNDES for the transfer of R $ 11.2 billion of resources from the Climate Fund for financing initiatives that include environmental aspects.
“Brazil has to have a very firm position, we have to lead the global environmental agenda. Making COP30 be a moment of change, of alteration of this process (of environmental deterioration),” said Mercadante. “Today is a very important day to save all this richness from our biome, from plant diversity, animals.”
The president of BNDES recalled that global warming is faster than expected, while the world is experiencing a time when “negationism is coming back,” with the United States, withdrawing from climate agreements and goals, such as the Paris Agreement.
“It can be much more serious if the planet’s predatory insanity follow this march of foolishness, greenhouse gas emission, biomes predation, strategic forest reserves,” Mercadante warned. “We are absolutely aware that we have to do much more than we have done.” Among those present at the time were also the Minister of Racial Equality, Anielle Franco, and the president of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), Rodrigo Agostinho, among other authorities.
*With information from Estadão Content
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