{"id":40681,"date":"2025-07-15T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=40681"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:40:51","slug":"article-draft-bill-of-devastation-the-ongoing-recklessness-must-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/article-draft-bill-of-devastation-the-ongoing-recklessness-must-be-stopped\/","title":"Article: Draft Bill of Devastation \u2013 the ongoing recklessness must be stopped","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental protection is in jeopardy in Brazil should the Draft Bill of Devastation be passed. Photo: Evaristo Sa\/ AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Proposal for a General Environmental Licensing Law jeopardizes the integrity of environmental licensing as a tool to ensure a safe evaluation and prevent environmental impacts and damages on developments, articulating technical criteria, impact studies, social participation, and the observance of fundamental rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An article signed by Gabriel Sampaio, director of Advocacy and Litigation at Conectas, and Mauricio Guetta, director of Law and Public Policy at Avaaz, shows how the draft bill may be considered the most radically opposed to the environmental agenda. The text was originally published on the Jota portal. Click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jota.info\/opiniao-e-analise\/artigos\/pl-da-devastacao-marcha-da-insensatez-precisa-ser-contida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe discussion based on the current Devastation draft bill will lead us to a wrongful decision with major damage. This is why we must stop the ongoing recklessness and put forth a new and broader debate with society in order to improve environmental licensing in Brazil\u201d, the authors claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>Environmental protection is in jeopardy in Brazil should the Draft Bill of Devastation be passed. 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