Study shows that 317 measures adopted by Salles weaken environmental protection

The Institute for Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc) analyzed 524 administrative measures published by the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) that reveal the method of socio-environmental dismantling in the first years of the Bolsonaro government. The study states that at least 124 of these measures have significant risk of favoring “reducing the level of environmental protection”, says the text.

The analysis points out that the attempts to deregulate and loosen the control of environmental agencies can be classified in three different types: rules that seek to weaken the administrative accountability for punishing environmental offenders; those that seek to reduce the structure of government agencies and those that aim to undermine the role of the MMA in the environmental agenda.

“The analysis of the measures published in the Official Federal Gazette (DOU) reveals that in fact the institutional capacity of the agencies to execute policies and comply with environmental legislation is being dismantled,” explains Alessandra Cardoso, political advisor at Inesc.