IBAMA spent only 41% of its budget in 2021, report says

In a year in which Brazil broke successive deforestation records, a report by the organization Climate Observatory (OC) points out that Ibama, the nations environmental police, failed to execute about 60% of its budget for environmental crime control. Of the 219 million available, the agency used 88 million, 41% of the total amount. Compared to the results in previous governments, this is atypical. According to the OC, the environmental agency used to spend between 86% and 92% of its resources for surveillance work.

The report “The bill has arrived - The third year of environmental destruction under Jair Bolsonaro” also points out the main environmental policy measures of the current government that are at risk of being approved in Congress in 2022. “The coming months will be especially dangerous, because congressmen allied to Bolsonaro and fueled by the secret budget will try to crown the dismantling by promoting legislative changes, which are irreversible. Brazilian society and Brazil’s international partners need to be very attentive“, warned Suely Araújo, co-author of the document and senior public policy specialist at the Climate Observatory.