The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (, abbreviated MMA) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The ministry emerged from the Special Secretariat for the Environment within the now-extinct Ministry of the Interior from 1974 to 1985. It has gone through several name changes since its inception.
Responsibilities
- National Environmental Policy
- Environmental policies and programs for the Amazon and other Brazilian biomes
- Water resources policy
- National water security policy
- Policies for the preservation, conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems, biodiversity and forests
- Policies for integrating environmental protection with economic production
- Regulatory and economic strategies, mechanisms and instruments for improving environmental quality and the sustainable use of natural resources
- National policy on climate change
- Ecological-economic zoning and other territorial planning instruments, including marine spatial planning, in articulation with other competent Ministries
- Management of public forests for sustainable production
- Management of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) at the federal level
- Policies for the integration between environmental policy and energy policy
- Policies for the protection and recovery of native vegetation
- Environmental quality of human settlements, in conjunction with the Ministry of Cities
- National environmental education policy, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education
- Shared management of fisheries resources, in conjunction with the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Structure
Councils
- National Council for the Environment (CONAMA);
- National Water Resources Council (CNRH);
- Genetic Heritage Management Council (CGen);
- National Council for the Legal Amazon (CONAMAZ);
- National Rubber Council (CNB);
- National Commission to Combat Desertification (CNCD);
- Steering Committee of the National Fund on Climate Change;
- Deliberative Council of the National Environment Fund
- National Council of Traditional Peoples and Communities (CNPCT)
Secretariats
- Executive Secretary
- National Secretariat for Biodiversity, Forests and Animal Rights
- National Secretariat for Urban Environment and Environmental Quality
- National Secretariat for Climate Change
- National Bioeconomy Secretariat
- National Secretariat of Traditional Peoples and Communities and Sustainable Rural Development
- Extraordinary Secretariat for Deforestation Control and Territorial Environmental Planning
- National Secretariat for Biodiversity, Forests and Animal Rights
- Brazilian Forest Service
Linked Entities
List of Environmental Ministers
See also
References
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