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  2. Environment of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The Brazilian Ministry of the Environment is the agency in charge of coordinating, supervising and controlling the Brazilian Environmental Policy. It is also responsible for promoting the use of sustainable natural resources and applying sustainable development within the formulation and implementation of national policies.

  3. Environmental issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Environment is responsible for Brazil's national environmental policy. The ministry's many departments deal with climate change and environmental quality, biodiversity and forests, water resources, sustainable urban and rural development, and environmental citizenship.

  4. Conservation in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Environment is responsible for Brazil's national environmental policy. The ministry's many departments deal with climate change and environmental quality, biodiversity and forests, water resources, sustainable urban and rural development, and environmental citizenship.

  5. BHP faces $47 billion UK lawsuit over Brazilian dam collapse

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    A hearing in a lawsuit against BHP over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam, will begin at London's High Court on Monday, with claimants seeking up to 36 ...

  6. Climate change in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Taking into account the different projections that imply potential impacts on natural and human systems (socioeconomic and environmental), it is already possible to analyze the expected impacts of climate change in the various sectors of Brazil, and the planning and decision making to define adaptation strategies and mitigation policies." [22]

  7. Deforestation in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    They need to create financial mechanisms to help landowners incentivize conservation of forests on private lands. A mechanism could be established under Brazil’s Forest Code with the environmental reserve quotas. [81] The Brazilian Forest Code requires landowners in the Amazon to maintain 35 to 80 percent of their property under native ...

  8. Protected areas of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Fishing houses in the Piaçabuçu Environmental Protection Area. The SNUC law defines a protected area mosaic as a collection of protected areas of the same or different categories that are near to each other, adjoining each other or overlapping, and that should be managed as a whole.

  9. Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural ...

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    The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, IBAMA) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm. [1] [2] IBAMA was created in 1988 by President José Sarney. [3]