The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Luiz Fux, will receive nine former ministers of the Environment in his office, in the late afternoon of this Wednesday (23), to deal with an extensive list of cases: there are seven judgments on driving ‘cattles’, as the Bolsonaro government’s anti-environmental decisions became known, scheduled for trial by the STF on the 30th.
The lawsuits deal with failure to comply with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and the program to combat deforestation in the Amazon (ADPF 760), withdrawal of Ibama’s autonomy in Operação Verde Brasil 2 (ADPF 735), exclusion of civil society from the board of the National Fund (ADPF 651), failure to fight deforestation (ADO 54), stoppage of the Amazon Fund (ADO 59), change in air quality standards made by Conama resolution (ADI 6148) and the automatic granting of environmental licensing , made by provisional measure (ADI 6808).
Minister Cármen Lúcia – who reports on six of the seven cases – will also receive the nine former ministers in her office this Wednesday. They are: Carlos Minc, Edson Duarte, Gustavo Krause, Izabella Teixeira, José Carlos Carvalho, José Goldemberg, José Sarney Filho, Marina Silva and Rubens Ricupero.
“We learn from each other’s experience and seek to cooperate to build modern and democratic socio-environmental legislation with their respective public policies that have become world references,” said the former ministers in a letter requesting the meeting with the STF.
“We gathered in this group the experience accumulated in more than four decades of building the country’s socio-environmental governance, passing through all the political parties that governed the country in that period”, says the group’s text.
In addition to the Executive’s actions – which motivated the articulation of former ministers since the beginning of the Bolsonaro government – bills that weaken environmental legislation are also in the group’s sights.
For Thursday (24), the nine former ministers have a meeting scheduled with the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), in an appeal against projects that have already been approved by the Chamber and are now being processed in the Senate – on environmental licensing , pesticides and land tenure regularization – and also an alert against mining in indigenous lands, a matter that should be voted on by the deputies in early April.
