Izabella Teixeira

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Teixeira is devoted to reversing the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, and achieved an 84% reduction in deforestation from 2004 to 2012, a "remarkable feat that is a tribute to her courage to push against the tide of destruction and is a significant initiative from Brazil on climate change mitigation". Her land-use planning policies saved 250,000 km2 of conservation areas—the equivalent of 75 percent of protected forests in the world. [7]

From August 2012 to July 2013, the rate of deforestation increased by 29% in the Amazônia Legal (Legal Amazon), [9] and from 2013 to 2014, it rose by 358%. [10] With Teixeira as Environment Minister, Brazil has also refused to sign the anti-deforestation pledge that aims to reduce deforestation by 2030, dealing a blow to the Climate Change summit that took place in New York in October 2014. “Unfortunately, we were not consulted,” Brazil’s Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira told the Associated Press. [11]

2014 FIFA World Cup

On 24 May 2014, Teixeira announced a pollution-reducing initiative aimed at making the 2014 FIFA World Cup the most environmentally friendly ever by allowing companies to buy carbon credits in exchange for the right to advertise themselves as official “green seal” World Cup sponsors. In addition, along with the United Nations Environment Program, Teixeira launched a project called “green passport” that promoted sustainable tourism. [12]

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Izabella Teixeira
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Minister of Environment
In office
30 March 2010 12 May 2016
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Environment
2010–2016
Succeeded by