Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources/ Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (IBAMA)

The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) is a federal autarchy endowed with legal personality under public law, administrative and financial autonomy, linked to the Ministry of the Environment. Its main attributions are to exercise environmental police power; carry out actions of national environmental policies, referring to federal attributions, related to environmental licensing, environmental quality control, authorization for the use of natural resources and inspection, monitoring and environmental control; and carry out supplementary actions under the competence of the Union in accordance with current environmental legislation.