Brazil

Decree No. 9.578 consolidating executive regulations on Climate Change

Executive

Decree

Passed in 2018

This Decree consolidates the normative acts issued by the Federal Executive Power about the National Climate Change Fund regulated by Law No. 12.114 of December 9, 2009, and the National Policy on Climate Change, regulated by the Law No. 12.187 of December 29, 2009, in compliance with the provisions of Complementary Law No. 95 of February 26, 1998, and Decree No. 9.191, of November 1, 2017.

The decree was amended on November 28, 2019, by the then government.

Documents

Climate targets in this law

8 targets

expansion of forest planting by 3 million hectares

LULUCF | Target year: 2020
expansion of biological nitrogen fixation in 5.5 million hectares of cultivated areas, replacing the use of nitrogen fertilizers

Agriculture | Target year: 2020
expansion of the practice of no-till straw by 8 million hectares

Agriculture | Target year: 2020
expansion of crop-livestock-forestry system by 4 million hectares

LULUCF | Target year: 2020
reduce projected 2020 CO2 emissions by 1,168-1,259 million tonnes

Economy-wide | Target year: 2020
recovery of 15 million hectares of degraded pastures

LULUCF | Target year: 2020
40% reduction in annual deforestation rates in the Cerrado Biome in relation to the average of the period 1999-2008

LULUCF | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 1999-2008
80% reduction in annual deforestation rates in Amazon in relation to the average of the period 1996-2005

LULUCF | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 1996-2005

Related litigation cases

PSB et al. v. Brazil (on Climate fund)

Opened in 2020 Filing
On June 5, 2020, four political parties filed a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality for Omission, before the Federal Supreme Court to challenge the Federal Union's alleged failure to adopt administrative measures concerning the Climate Fund. The National Climate Change Fund (Fundo Clima), create...