Marina Silva announces the creation of the National Climate Security Authority.
The Minister of the Environment calls for action to stop the country from being seen as an environmental pariah.
Brazil Agency - In one of the most crowded handover ceremonies in recent years, federal deputy-elect for São Paulo Marina Silva took over the Ministry of the Environment this Wednesday (4), almost 15 years after leaving the post during President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term, in 2008. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of people who crowded into the Noble Hall of the Planalto Palace. Many could not enter due to the space being full.
Internationally recognized for her work in defending sustainability, Marina Silva stated, in a speech that lasted about an hour, that Brazil has become an environmental pariah and that, in recent years, there has been a dismantling of the structures for combating deforestation and climate change policies.
One of the new developments announced by the minister is the creation of the National Climate Security Authority, an autonomous agency that will be linked to the ministry, which will now be called the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, maintaining the acronym MMA. The creation of the National Climate Security Authority was a proposal brought forward by Marina during the elections and welcomed by then-candidate Lula. According to the minister, the project should be established by the end of March. There will also be a government council exclusively dedicated to addressing the issue, under the leadership of the President of the Republic.
"By March of this year, the creation of the National Climate Security Authority will be formalized within the Ministry of the Environment, in addition to the creation of a council on climate change, to be headed by the President of the Republic himself, and with the participation of all the ministries that are now in this Esplanade, civil society, states and municipalities. The council will be the central locus for the coordination and agreement of Brazilian policies on climate change and will go beyond the federal sphere," he stated.
"The climate emergency is imperative. We want to highlight what is currently the greatest global challenge facing humanity. Countries, people, and ecosystems are proving increasingly unable to cope with the consequences. It has been proven that the poorest are the most affected," argued the minister. Immediately, in the new ministerial structure established by decree this week, the National Secretariat for Climate Change was recreated, which includes a department for ocean policy and coastal management.
Regarding the National Authority, which will deal with climate emergencies, Marina Silva explained that its purpose will be to provide input for the execution and implementation of the national climate policy, regulate and monitor the implementation of actions related to sectoral policies and targets for mitigation, adaptation, and promotion of resilience to climate change, and supervise instruments, programs, and actions for the implementation of the national policy on climate change and its sectoral plans. "The government's decision is that the design of this autonomous body will be submitted to the National Congress by the end of April," she announced.
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