National Environmental Project

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The objectives of the project are to strengthen: (a) the protection of the country's most important conservation areas and imminently endangered ecosystems, with special emphasis on the reduction of economic and environmental losses associated with uncontrolled deforestation, soil erosion, and air and waterlution; (b) the institutions of the environmental sector, with special emphasis on the strengthening of the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renovaveis (IBAMA) and State Agencies in the Legal Amazon and Pantanal, and (c) the regulatory framework of the environmental sector. The project would support the first three-year phase of Brazil's National Environmental Program (Programa Nacional de Meio Ambiente - PMNA). It would finance: (a) the strengthening of the National System of Conservation Units; (b) protection of ecosystems; and (c) institutional development.