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Brazil: Lula Should Veto Environmental Protection Rollback
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According to the NGO, the law would reduce the protection of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian rural communities whose territories have not been officially recognized
Brazil: Lula Should Veto Environmental Protection Rollback
Deforested area within the Governador Indigenous Land, in the state of Maranhão, in November 2017. Non-Indigenous people removed the most valuable timber and then burned the area for cultivation. Photo by César Muñoz Acebes. (São Paulo) - Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious threats to environment-related human rights across the country, Human Rights Watch said …
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization urged President Luiz Inácio Lula of Silva to “veget the bill that deplete environmental licences” and encouraged projects that could speed up oil and gas extraction, mining or agricultural industry in Amazon. The draft environmental licensing bill, baptized by the opposition as “PL of destruction”, was approved on 17 July in the House of Representatives and, as he explained in the communiqué, would reduc…
As expected, the Devastation Bill was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, bringing a decades-long setback to environmental licensing in Brazil. This represented a victory for the ruralist caucus and agribusiness, and a defeat for the country and our future. But that wasn't the only blow that day. Just before analyzing the licensing bill, the Chamber approved allocating R$30 billion from the pre-salt layer to renegotiate agricultural debts. Whil…
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