Congress votes on projects and amendments that threaten the environment

According to a survey by the Climate Observatory, the situation could be even worse. The observatory announced last night that 25 bills and three amendments to the Constitution are being processed in the Brazilian Congress with a high probability of immediate advancement. Environmentalists call it the ‘Package of Destruction’.

The nickname applies to a set of proposals that, according to the observatory, will cause irreversible damage to Brazilian ecosystems, traditional peoples, the global climate and the safety of each citizen. There are things there, like PL 364/2019, which makes the Forest Code more flexible, already approved by the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) of the Chamber, waiting to be voted on in the Plenary. The text allows native fields and other forms of native vegetation to be freely converted to agriculture, planted pastures and mining.

The other project, PL 3334/2023, makes it possible to reduce the legal reserve in the Amazon. Reduces the part of the territory of the Amazon states occupied by protected areas from 65% to 50% so that the legal reserve can be reduced from 80% to up to 50%.

He also comments on the project that provides “amnesty” for deforesters and which is in the Senate’s Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Committee.

There is another one, which is the following: amnesty for deforesters. It’s in the Senate. The project was presented in 2020, by Senator Irajá (PSD/TO) and is in the Senate’s Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Committee. It is only awaiting the opinion of the rapporteur, senator Jaime Bagattoli (PL/RO), who has already declared that he will give a favorable opinion.

For him, the worst of all is the “carbon market” project.