Knowledge exchange –NGOs partnerships and Federal Prosecution Service at Brazil

Ubiratan Cazetta

Federal Prosecutor in Brazil

State of Pará (Brazil)

An area twice the size of An area twice the size of France, Pará has Brazil's worst rates of illegal logging, slave labour, land title falsification

and rural violence.

Environmental problems in Pará are

often associated with the lack of law

enforcement.

The victim is not only the forest. It is also the traditional

communities and indigenous people.

� Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service is a peculiar organization, that works with:

� Judicial actions

� Criminal issues (including environmental crimes, money laundering, slavery, human being traffic and so on)

� Non-criminal issues - Class actions (consumer, environmental, implementation of public policies)environmental, implementation of public policies)

� Non-judicial actions

� Discussing implementation of public policies

� defending indigenous interests

� Discussing environmental licensing of mining projects, roads, hydroelectric projects and so on

� Own budget

� Separate of Justice, Legislative or Executive

� Independent acting

� Same garanties of a judge

� Try to talk with stakeholders

� Relationships with NGOs

� Planning our actions

� Studying the context of Amazon region (using the results of the NGOs researches)

� Being a case to be studied (Imazon`s researches about Criminal Justice eficiency against environmental crimes)environmental crimes)

� Demanding specific researches or products

Planning� Seminars

� Interviews

� Dialogue with NGOs (Imazon, IPAM, ISA)

Studying the context� Using the published researches (data about

deforestation, logging, land frauds)

� Knowing the stakeholders

� Listening about the new pressures against � Listening about the new pressures against environmental

Federal Prosecution activities being studied by NGOs

Demanding specific informations or products� Dialoguing with NGOs, with independency, to reach

special informations or lines of acting

� Developing how to calculate carbon costs of a environmental damageenvironmental damage

� Specific studies about mining, roads or hydroelectric projects and their environmental impacts

“Tenotã-mõ: Warnings on the Consequences of Hydroelectric Projectson the Xingu River” analyze the legal, human rights, human rights, environmental, social, and economic implications of hydroelectric projects planned for the Xingu.

Researches about illegal logging in cities of Itaituba and Altamira

ISA researches for Médio Xingu Resex

Deforestation warnings� Protected areas

� Signs of increasing deforestation

� Warnings, by e-mail, direct to Federal Prosecution ServiceService

� Fast information to prevent

Advantages� Fast information

� Able to inform to IBAMA and Federal Police to identify who is the author of the deforestation

� Give us a capacity to act before the damage is � Give us a capacity to act before the damage is consolidate

� Give us a chance to antecipate some moviments against the forest

Problems to solve� Need to get a better answer of IBAMA and Federal

Police

� Get more transparency of Federal Prosecution Service acts (regular informs to Imazon and to Service acts (regular informs to Imazon and to public)

Thanks!

www.prpa.mpf.gov.brwww.prpa.mpf.gov.br

ubiratan@prpa.mpf.gov.br