Date

2018-12-10

Measure

Speech of the, at the time, soon to be Minister of Environment, Ricardo Salles (more information here)

Impact

Ricardo Salles criticizes the data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). According to him there is not enough data to talk about deforestation in Brazil: "The data is very generic, we don't know if deforestation is happening inside conservation units, inside indigenous lands, in private areas, in a higher or lower percentage than the legal reserve surplus".