US EditionBrazil's Environment Minister Resigns to Run for Congress
She said she will return to Congress and back Lula’s reelection after policies under her leadership cut forest loss by more than 50%.
- On Wednesday, Environment Minister Marina Silva announced she is stepping down from Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula's administration to run for Congress later this year.
- Under Brazilian election law, ministers must leave office six months ahead of the Oct. 4 national election, ending Silva's second term as environmental policy head.
- Since 2022, policies implemented under Silva's leadership have reduced forest loss by more than 50% in the Amazon, while she reorganized federal agencies and restructured the Amazon Fund.
- Environmentalist Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco, serving at the Environment Ministry, will succeed Silva and assume leadership as she resumes her mandate as a lawmaker.
- Despite her departure, Silva pledged to eliminate deforestation by 2030, though President Lula has pressed for exploratory offshore oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River.
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Marina Silva and Renan Son left government to compete in October
The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, leaves the job on this Thursday to debate the elections in São Paulo, without having the definition whether it will be given in the head of Fernando Haddad to the pulist government or discuss a vacancy in the Senate in the state. The minister used a football metaphor for his definition of the party, saying that the situation is “in the phase of extension”. — Today I am affiliated with the Network, I…
Minister Marina Silva (Rede) left her post as Minister of the Environment this Wednesday (April 1, 2026), after years at the helm. The current executive secretary, João Paulo Capobianco, will assume the position following the minister's resignation, which will be published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU). The departure is part of the restructuring of the government led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Marina had held the p…
The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, resigned on this Thursday (1) of the job. She left the post command, which is being led by João Paulo Capobianco, until then the MMA's executive secretary, while preparing to discuss a vacancy in the Senate by São Paulo. In the afternoon of this quarter, Marina highlighted pasta's actions over the three years of management. According to the minister, one of the main challenges was…
Brazilian Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, a world-renowned climate leader, resigned on Wednesday in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to run for Congress in the coming months.
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