O Environmental Licensing in Brazil and its challenges in Environmental Protection

Abstract

This research sought answers about the environmental licensing process in Brazil, what laws define it and what challenges it faces that make environmental protection unfeasible. In this context, the objective of this work is to seek an understanding of how environmental licensing is articulated in Brazil through existing legislation and the functionality of environmental agencies, presenting the difficulties that prevent it from being efficient in protecting the environment. In order to obtain the proposed objective, bibliographic research was used as a methodological resource, based on the analysis of materials already published, such as laws, resolutions, booklets, manuals and scientific articles published in electronic media, looking in the researched references for the concept of environmental licensing, its importance for the environment and its challenges. Therefore, it was concluded that environmental licensing becomes indispensable to combat threats of environmental damage, imposing its valuation, because when the environment is negatively impacted it is almost never fully recovered, and despite all criticisms, dissatisfactions, challenges and the perception that environmental licensing is an obstacle to be overcome.