After pressure from artists and civil society, Supreme Court sets up trial of “green package”

The Federal Supreme Court (STF) has set aside March 30 for the trial of seven lawsuits with socio-environmental themes, signed by opposition parties. According to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, the initiative to close a “green package” is led by the ministers Cármen Lúcia and Rosa Weber, with the support of the president of the STF, Luiz Fux. The movement comes after the Act for the Earth, which brought together, on March 9, artists, activists, indigenous leaders, along with thousands of people, in front of the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brasilia (DF), against the set of bills being considered in Congress that threaten the country’s environmental policy.

The actions are about fighting deforestation and fires, protecting the Amazon, air quality standards and environmental licenses. With the exception of ADI 6148, filed by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which questions the resolution of the National Council on the Environment (CONAMA), all the actions have opposition parties as authors, with the support of NGOs that participate as amicus curiae (friend of the court), offering subsidies for a technical opinion on the agenda.