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In the same week President Jair Bolsonaro told the United Nations that no country in the world has an environmental policy as strong as his, Brazil’s Economy Ministry asked the Environmental Ministry to loosen deforestation controls.
- The list of requests includes the automatic issuance of environmental licenses when processes take too long, revoking deforestation rules in the Atlantic Forest biome, and lowering standards for pesticide production.
- The economic team also wants the government to lower minimum preservation limits within rural Amazon properties from 80 to 35 percent when the area also contains part of the Cerrado tropical savanna.
What’s behind. The move comes at the behest of private companies, who claim, according to the Economy Ministry, that current environmental controls “hinder business activity in Brazil.”
- The Economy Ministry denies having asked for looser regulations and claims it only forwarded demands from the private sector without any judgment from its part.
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