Brazil's National Environmental Policy — Política Nacional do Meio Ambiente, more commonly known in Portuguese as PNMA — is the policy that puts into practice Art. 225 from the Federal Constitution, aiming to regulate activities that may affect the environment. This policy dates from 1981, before the Constitution of 1988 and within the global context… Continue reading Brazil’s National Environment Policy (Law 6.938/81)
On February 7, 2019, representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and senator Ed Markey released the Green New Deal resolution, a document that has since been widely discussed, endorsed and criticised. This resolution declares 5 goals and 14 projects for tackling climate change and social welfare. I personally believe this to have been a giant step for the… Continue reading The Green New Deal
Brazil's Water Resources Management Policy (law 9.433/97) is a document that establishes 1. important directives for the country's water management and 2. the main instrument for such management: a National Water Resources Management System (in Portuguese, SINGREH). There's no official translation to English for this policy, so the snippets I post here will be my… Continue reading Brazil’s National Water Resources Policy
It may seem otherwise, but Brazil has very strong and comprehensive environmental policies, some of which are even models internationally. Though these policies encounter severe difficulty in being implemented and surveilled, they provide a good framework for environmental analysis in various sectors (water resources, forestries and waste management, for instance). Since last year I studied… Continue reading The Environment in Brazil’s Federal Constitution
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