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On March 21, 2022, the Brazilian Government launched a new package of incentive measures seeking to stimulate programs and actions to reduce methane emissions, particularly through development of biogas...

As part of the regulatory framework for the Future Fuels Act (Law No. 14,933/2024), Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy has launched a public consultation on the draft Decree regulating the National Sustainable Aviation...

On April 14, 2022, Decree No. 11,043 was issued by Brazilian government, approving the Brazilian Solid Waste Plan (Plano Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos - "Planares").

On July 11, 2024, the Brazilian federal government published Federal Decree No. 12,106/2024, regulating the tax incentive for the recycling productive chain established by Federal Law No. 14,260/2021...

Amidst the recent uptrend of climate litigation cases in Brazil, the Brazilian Supreme Court has scheduled for March 30, 2022 a trial session covering several different lawsuits involving the protection of the environment and effects on climate change.

While climate litigation against private actors in Brazil has been gaining more attention and employing creative legal strategies, as we have already commented here and here, litigation against the government is also keeping pace, as illustrated by a recent case filed against the Brazilian Federal Government and the Ministry of Environment.

O Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), desde 12/06/2015, está recebendo contribuições para subsidiar a elaboração da consulta pública para regulamentação da recente Lei da Biodiversidade (Lei 13.123/2015), prevista para setembro.

No dia 29 de setembro de 2016, foi publicada a Decisão da Diretoria da Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo ("CETESB") I/C nº 210, que disciplina o licenciamento de instalações portuária no Estado de São Paulo.

O Conselho de Meio Ambiente do Distrito Federal ("CONAM") publicou, em 1º de março de 2018, as Resoluções CONAM n° 09 e 10, de 20 de dezembro de 2017 ...

Beginning April 2024, companies registered in Brazil's Federal Technical Registry of Potentially Polluting Activities (CTF/APP) will begin to pay the Environmental Control and Inspection...

The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) released an official note on March 3, 2022, announcing that it has begun the "Terra Brasilis Operation

On May 3, 2024, the Interinstitutional Committee for the Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy (CITSB)—keeping with its goal of coordinating the development of the Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy...

On April 14, 2021, Normative Instruction No. 1/2021 was issued jointly by the Ministry of the Environment, the Federal Environmental Agency (IBAMA) and the Federal Conservation Unit Agency (ICMBio)

A DD 51/2024 amplia a lista de produtos sujeitos à logística reversa e estabelece metas rigorosas para empresas em São Paulo, com prazo até 31/12/2025 para cumprimento das obrigações. A fim de renovar a licença...

In June 2025, Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) published Resolution No. 984/2025, fully revoking the previous Resolution ANP No. 758/2018 and part of Resolution No. 802/2019.

A Primeira Turma do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), na sessão ordinária de 28 de abril, fixou tese sobre a aplicação do Código Florestal (Lei 12.651/2012)...

The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources ("IBAMA") Normative Ruling No. 6/2013, recently amended by the IBAMA Normative Rulings Nos. 11 and 12/2018...