Environmental
Federal Decree No. 11.075/22, which regulates the sector, is an improvement, but legal security on the subject still depends on specific legislation.
Check out the amendments to Federal Decree 6,514/08 on violations and administrative sanctions for conduct and activities deemed harmful to the environment.
The institution of Planares and the creation of Recicla+ aim to improve the solid waste management in a proper, transparent and efficient way in the country.
One of the objectives of the National Plan for Environmental Regularization of Rural Properties is to promote and improve the integration of information systems and databases used to feed the Rural Environmental Registry.
New normative instrument establishes responsibilities, establishes organizational structure and defines guidelines, procedures and actions to ensure the joint and coordinated action of the public and private sectors, mitigate possible environmental damage and avoid, as much as possible, damage to public health.
Municipalities now have legislative competence to establish extensions of marginal bands of APPs, taking into account local characteristics.
Even in the case of joint and several liability, the burden of reparation can only be attributed to the State in the impossibility of the actual causative agent to repair the damage.
Program created a few days before the start of COP-26 demonstrates the country's evolution in the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and meet the 2030 Agenda.
Among the main issues to be discussed by global leaders is the regulation of the carbon market.
Prosecutors allege violation of the constitutional right to prior consultation of traditional and indigenous communities.
The growing concern about climate change in the country encourages the proposition of new standards on environmental aspects, as well as innovative judicial decisions that incorporate legal guidelines related to climate issues.
New environmental licensing model proposed in Bill No. 3,729/04 intends to reduce bureaucracy in environmental licensing processes, aiming to increase legal certainty.
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