Deputy Rodrigo Agostinho is the new president of Ibama

By Isabella Caminoto / 16/01/2023 / 1 minute reading

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) announced, last Saturday (14), federal deputy Rodrigo Agostinho (PSB-SP) as the new president of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Resources (Ibama). Former coordinator of the Environmentalist Parliamentary Front in the National Congress, Agostinho has technical training and political work in the environmental area.

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Biologist, lawyer and environmentalist, Rodrigo Augustine has a master's degree in Science and Technology with an emphasis on conservation biology and specialization and postgraduate courses. The parliamentarian was also a full member of the National Environmental Council (Conama) for more than 10 years and is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He was also mayor of Bauru/SP.

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The new president of Ibama is honored by the invitation and promeI commit you. “We will carry out technical management, valuing the work of servers”, she posted on social media.

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Among the main responsibilities of the Ibama, are the power of environmental police, in the ostensible combating of crimes, the granting of licensing and authorization for the use of natural resources, in addition to inspection, monitoring and environmental control.

(To Agency Brazil)

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