{"id":11268,"date":"2018-04-13T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=11268"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:53:58","slug":"organizations-oppose-new-environmental-licensing-law","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/organizations-oppose-new-environmental-licensing-law\/","title":"Organizations oppose new environmental licensing law","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p>Civil society organizations have come out against the speaker of the Lower House of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, who announced that environmentalists and agribusiness representatives have reached an agreement on Bill 3,729\/2004 that changes Brazil\u2019s environmental licensing rules. The organizations oppose the new rules and say that no agreement has been reached with the agribusiness caucus in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The activists explain that they do not support the bill because it makes the environment more vulnerable. Currently, the bill exempts agricultural activities from environmental licensing, irrespective of their impact, and also creates self-declaratory licensing and relaxes a number of environmental requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations brought up the Doce River tragedy and the toxic waste leak by Hydro Alunorte to exemplify the potential dangers of approving the text. \u201cThe announced (and fictitious) agreement only serves to create a false sense of accord, which will result in the dismantling of Brazil\u2019s licensing policy by Congress,\u201d they argued. In September 2017, Rodrigo Maia met with environmentalists, artists and indigenous groups and agreed to not put the environmental licensing bill to the vote before debating the issue with civil society, which has still not occurred. The organizations, therefore, are asking to be heard and lament the possibility that \u201cthe immediate economic interests of a minority \u2013 namely the agribusiness caucus \u2013 will once again prevail over the interests of the whole country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A letter expressing concern over Bill 3,729\/2004 was signed by 46 Brazilian organizations including Conectas, Inesc (Institute for Socio-Economic Studies) and ISA (Socioenvironmental Institute).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carta_Que-acordo-foi-esse_46assinaturas-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to read the letter in full<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>Contrary to claims by house speaker Rodrigo Maia, there is no agreement between environmentalists and agribusiness caucus on the new 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