The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said, this Thursday (25th), in Brasília, that the federal government will continue to dialogue to prevent the removal of assignments from the portfolio, voted on by the National Congress that Wednesday. fair (24). “In the case of the Temporal Framework (of Indigenous Lands) and the changes that the rapporteur is proposing in the matter, the final vote has not yet been taken in the plenary of the house. We still have until Tuesday (30) to continue the dialogues and, obviously, the government’s internal dialogue is taking place”, he explained. The minister classified the moment as difficult for the government. “A part of Congress, which is the majority, wants to impose the management model of the Bolsonaro government on the elected government of President Lula”, she stressed. Marina Silva said she respects the autonomy of the powers of the Republic, but that the provisional measure sent at the beginning of the year is the right of the current federal government. Sovereignty “Congress is sovereign. We respect the autonomy of the powers that be, but the federal government has the legal and constitutional right to organize itself [dentro da] way that the Executive understands that it is the best way to carry out its management”, he stressed. She regretted the alterations in the original text. “There is a set of actions being subtracted from the original form, as President Lula made the provisional measure, recovering the lost competencies and preserving the competencies of recently created ministries, such as the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples”, he noted. Marina Silva’s statements were given during the inauguration of the president of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), Mauro Pires , a career official at the agency, this Thursday. Pires was chosen through a search committee, recreated in February by the current federal government and made up of five specialists in environmental conservation to choose a technical name to lead the agency. Minister chose the name of Mauro Pires from a triple list of nominees by the committee Biodiversity conservation The new president of the institute, Mauro Pires, said that the bodies of the National Environment System will continue their work in a stronger way. “It is not a difficulty like this that will prevent us from working to consolidate the protected areas. The conservation units are the heritage of the Brazilian people. So, we have to work so that the conservation of biodiversity continues with the same effort”, he specified. In his inauguration speech at ICMBio, Mauro Pires highlighted that Marina Silva’s presence at the head of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has changed Brazil’s environmental and climate governance and that the time of denial of science is over. The inauguration took place in the conservation unit of the Brasília National Park. The ceremony was attended by the president of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai), Joenia Wapichana, and representatives of the Deputy Delegation of the European Commission, France, Germany, Norway, Italy and representatives of civil society and academics.
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