Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Brazil)

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Portuguese: Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima, 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.

Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
Ministry overview
Formed15 March 1985
JurisdictionFederal government of Brazil
HeadquartersBrasília, Federal District
Annual budgetR$ 3,1 billion (2015)[1]
Minister responsible
Websitewww.gov.br/mma

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

Linked Entities

List of Environmental Ministers
  • Paulo Nogueira Neto (1974-1985, as Special Secretariat for the Environment (Ministry of the Interior))
  • Flavio Rios Peixoto da Silveira (1985-1986, as Ministry of Urban Development and Environment)
  • Deni Lineu Schwartz (1986-1987)
  • Prisco Viana (1987-1988, Ministry of Housing, Urbanism and Environment)
  • Fernando Coutinho Jorge (1992-1993, as Ministry of the Environment)
  • Rubens Ricupero (1993-1994, as Ministry of the Environment and the Legal Amazon)
  • Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti (1994-1995, interim)
  • Gustavo Krause (1995-1999, Ministry of the Environment, Water Resources and the Legal Amazon)
  • Sarney Filho (1999-2002, as Ministry of the Environment)
  • Jose Carlos Carvalho (2002-2003)
  • Marina Silva (2003)
  • Cláudio Roberto Bertoldo Langone (interim, 2003)
  • Marina Silva (2003-2008)
  • Carlos Minc (2008-2010)
  • Izabella Teixeira (2010-2016)
  • Sarney Filho (2016-2018)
  • Edson Duarte (interim, 2018-2019)
  • Ricardo Salles (2019-2021)
  • Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite (2021-2022)
  • Marina Silva (2023-, as Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change)

See also

References
  1. Portal Orçamento (October 2014). "Projeto de Lei Orçamentária para 2015" (PDF). Senado federal. p. 21. Retrieved 3 January 2015.


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