The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) announced this Saturday (14) federal deputy Rodrigo Agostinho (PSB-SP) as the new president of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Resources (Ibama).
Coordinator of the Environmentalist Parliamentary Front in the National Congress, Agostinho has technical training and political activity in the area. Biologist, lawyer and environmentalist, he 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 member of the National Council for the Environment (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.
The new president of Ibama says he is honored with the invitation and promises commitment. “We will carry out technical management, valuing the work of the servers”, he posted on social networks. Among the main attributions of Ibama are the power of environmental police, in the ostensive fight against the practice of crimes, the granting of licensing and authorization for the use of natural resources, in addition to inspection, monitoring and environmental control.
We will carry out technical management, valuing the work of the servers.
Thank you for the invitation and trust, Minister @MarinaSilva.
Let’s work together for a better future!
— Rodrigo Agostinho (@rodrigoagost) January 14, 2023
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The MMA also announced Edel Moraes for the Secretary of Sustainable Rural Development of the folder. The nominee belongs to extractive communities in Pará and was the first woman to be vice-president of the National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS), for two terms, in addition to vice-president of the Chico Mendes Memorial. Edel Moraes is also a doctoral student at the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS) at the University of Brasília (UnB) and has a master’s degree in sustainable development of traditional peoples and territories, specialist in rural education, development and sustainability and is part of the Group of Studies and Research of Amazon.
The Secretariat for Sustainable Rural Development was created in 2007 to promote the sustainable transition of the current model of agricultural and rural development in the country.
