The Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) held the Environmental Licensing Management Workshop in Rio de Janeiro
The event, which was attended by several associated companies, promoted a debate on the evolution and priorities of the environmental licensing management process.
The discussions were based on the document “Contributions to the Debate on Improving the Management of Federal Environmental Licensing”, from CEBDS. The study included a survey carried out with companies and environmental licensing agencies.
According to Fabrício Barreto, from Paradigma Ambiental, one of the publication's consultants, the lack of coordination between agencies is a major obstacle. Improvements are needed in the dialogue with intervening agencies and in the management of processes to ensure agility and efficiency in licensing at the federal level.
“It is extremely important that we have the support of CEBDS and other organizations to assist the bodies dedicated to environmental licensing.” (Fabrício Barreto)
The importance of working together with environmental agencies was emphasized. It is necessary to establish a structured and permanent process of dialogue between IBAMA and other institutions. Environmental programs need to talk to each other and integrate. stakeholders They should not seek each other only in emergencies, but throughout the entire process, and thus build paths to solutions.
There must be coordination with strategic partners to ensure effectiveness in the management of environmental licensing. Institutions such as Ibama, ICMBio It is IBP must be called to join this process.
For CEBDS, “the greater demand for licensing has overburdened the agencies and deepened their liabilities, increasing the difficulties for the government's environmental sector to dedicate itself, based on its accumulated experience, to seeking a structuring process of improvements in management, whether in the most general scope, or in the construction of specific solutions by sector, or by types of enterprises.”
CEBDS's suggestions indicate “the possibility of improvement in the scope of process management, which could be done at the infra-legal level, through the standardization of procedures, the establishment of new rites, the reduction of subjectivity in decision-making by technicians, the alteration of internal flows within the environmental agency and in its relationship with the so-called intervening agencies.”
