The Federal Supreme Court (STF) formed a majority this Thursday (30) to determine that the Executive Branch does not restrict the funds of a fund that aims to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Six of the 11 ministers have already voted that the government will have to “make the Climate Fund work”.
The trial takes place on the court’s virtual platform, in which magistrates cast their votes for a certain period of time, and will only end this Friday (1st).
The ministers understood that the government failed to fully use the resources of the fund, which is linked to the Ministry of the Environment, referring to the year 2019. The objective of the Climate Fund is to finance projects that lead to the reduction of gas emissions of greenhouse effect.
“The country is moving in the opposite direction of the commitments assumed and the mitigation of climate change, and the situation has worsened substantially in recent years”, said the rapporteur of the action, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso.
“This is the worrying and persistent situation in which the fight against climate change in Brazil finds itself, which puts the lives, health and food security of its population at risk, as well as the economy in the future.”
According to him, “the Executive has the duty – and not the free choice – to make the Climate Fund work and to allocate its resources to its ends”.
The ministers Dias Toffoli, Cármen Lúcia, Alexandre de Moraes, Rosa Weber and Edson Fachin followed Barroso’s vote until this Thursday afternoon.
Fachin also voted that, in addition to Barroso’s, the Union should publish quarterly reports on the Climate Fund’s expenditures and formulate “with reasonable periodicity” a national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
However, this demand was not followed by the ministers who have already voted.
The action being judged by the STF was presented by PSB, PT, PSOL and Rede, which argued that as of 2019 the federal government began to omit itself in relation to the fund and ceased to apply its resources to measures to mitigate the changes. climate.
To the Supreme Court, the Presidency of the Republic said that the allocation of the resources in question is the responsibility of the Chief Executive and that it could not be subject to review by the Justice, because it would violate the principle of separation of powers. He also said that there were no setbacks on the issue.
