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President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced that Ricardo Salles will badume the Ministry of Environment of his government.
The name was announced through social networks this Sunday (9).
Salles is a lawyer and ex
Salles is a lawyer and member of the Socialist Party of the State of São Paulo under the administration of Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB).
He participated in the federal election of this new party in this year's elections, but was not elected. of the creators of the Straight Brazil movement
When he was secretary of the Toucan government, he and two other employees of his team were the target of an unlikely administrative action for suspicion of concealment of alterations in Environmental zoning maps of the Tietê River in Greater São Paulo
The Ministry of the Environment has been the target of controversy since the Bolsonaro campaign. When he was still a candidate, he had promised to unify agriculture, but he had given up after being pressured by environmentalists and peasants.
The choice of the ministry is the day after the negative repercussions of the withdrawal of the Brazilian government from the host country.
Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs justified the change by its lack of budget, this measure was considered abroad as an action by the Bolsonaro government, which criticized the actions of international organizations in climate.
ACTION
Halls was denounced for administrative improbability last year. He and two other employees of his team are believed to have hidden changes in the environmental zoning maps of the Tietê River in Greater São Paulo.
All six cards, "maliciously modified," according to promoter Silvio Antônio Marques, the protection of the largest river of Greater SP has become more flexible. For example, they were environmental protection zones identified as being able to protect against the environment, but industries and mining companies can now freely use them.
One of the points identified by the technical team responsible for advising the developer Leandro Leme, the change occurred exactly in an area adjacent to a large industry of the municipality of Suzano. "The protection zones can now become industrial," said prosecutor Leme.
The Public Prosecution Team identified the changes that were not recorded on the maps or even discussed on the eve of the Council meeting of 31
DEMATING
The Secretary will badume a period of great deforestation in the Amazon, which has increased further between 2017 and 2018 and has reached the highest level of the last decade, with 7 900 km² of forest reversed. The figures were released in November by the Ministry of Environment (MMA) and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC).
In the badessment of MMA, the increase in deforestation has four main reasons: the signs of deforestation in the Amazon. changing political winds, a favorable exchange rate for the agri-food sector, which favors the opening of new areas, a drought more pronounced than average and, consequently, a sharp increase in the number of fires.
In the deforested areas, the pre-election period was marked by the strong support given to Jair Bolsonaro, then president, fierce critic of environmental policies and the performance of Ibama, the main body of struggle against deforestation.
Election period of 2018, from August to October, there was an explosion of deforestation in the Amazon, which increased by 48.8% compared to the same period of the previous year. The surveillance in question, however, is linked to Deter B, another Inpe project that follows deforestation almost in real time, but whose resolution is lower than that of Prodes. In any case, both systems present a great convergence of information.
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