'Carta da Terra' talks about how the Chamber relaxed rules against deforestation in the Atlantic Forest

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In the Earth Charter, published this week by Earth News, Lourival Sant'Anna talks about the amendments to a provisional measure (1.050), approved this week by the Chamber of Deputies, which remove protections from the Atlantic Forest Law of 2006. This law prohibits works, such as highways, in areas of primary vegetation, never deforested, and those of secondary vegetation, in an advanced state of regeneration, which have been recovering for several decades. The law makes an exception when there is no alternative. The amendment to the provisional measure removes the entrepreneur's obligation to prove that he has no other place to carry out the work.

A Paper Note that the project also changes the Forest Code. It removes protection from riverbanks in urban areas and encourages expansion towards riverbanks in a context of climate change in which more intense rains are already occurring, with rivers overflowing their banks.

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The amendments also postpone the deadline for environmental regularization on rural properties for the fifth time. The project now goes to the Senate.

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 Other highlights of the week:

  • The UN General Assembly approved a proposal from the small island of Vanuatu, in the Pacific, for the International Court of Justice to take a position on the legal responsibility of governments to combat climate change; It is
  • Australia's Parliament approved a law that obliges the country's most polluting sectors to cut 30% of their emissions by 2030.

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