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LAW NO. 12,187, OF 29TH DECEMBER 2009.
Institutes the National Policy on Climate Change- PNMC and makes other provisions.
Art. 1. This Law institutes the National Policy on Climate Change – PNMC (Política Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima) and establishes its principles, objectives, directives and instruments.
X – vulnerability: degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, the adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Variability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which the system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity.
V – action at national level to address current, present and future climate change shall consider and integrate activities promoted at state and city level by public and private bodies.
VIII – encouraging the development of the Brazilian Emissions Reduction Market – MBRE (Mercado Brasileiro de Redução de Emissões).
Sole Paragraph. The objectives of the National Policy on Climate Change shall be consonant with sustainable development with the purpose of seeking economic growth, eradication of poverty and reduction of social inequalities.
b) sustainable consumption and production patterns.
XVIII – assessment of environmental impacts on the microclimate and the macroclimate.
V – the Meteorology, Climatology and Hydrology Activity Coordination Commission.
Art. 8. The official financial institutions shall open up specific lines of credit and financing to develop actions and activities that meet the objectives of this Law and that aim at inducing private agents to observe and implement the PNMC within the range of their actions and social responsibilities.
Art. 9. The Brazilian Emissions Reduction Market – MBRE shall be operated in commodities, futures and stock exchanges, and in over-the-counter trading companies authorized by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil – CVM, where negotiations for securities representing certified avoided greenhouse gas emissions shall take place.
Art. 11. Other public policy and governmental program principles, objectives, directives and instruments shall be made compatible with the principles, objectives, directives and instruments of this National Policy on Climate Change.
Sole Paragraph. A Decree from the Executive Power shall, in accordance with the National Policy on Climate Change, establish the Sectoral Plans of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, aiming at the consolidation of a low-carbon consuming economy, for the sectors of energy generation and distribution; urban public transport and modal interstate cargo and passenger transportation systems; manufacturing industry and durable consumer goods industry; fine chemicals industry and basic chemicals industry; paper and cellulose industry; mining; civil construction industry; healthcare services; and agriculture and ranching, with a view to meeting gradual quantifiable and verifiable anthropogenic emissions reduction targets, considering the specificities of each sector, including via the Clean Development Mechanism – CDM and via Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions- NAMAs.
Art. 12. To attain the PNMC objectives, the country shall adopt actions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions with the purpose of reducing between 36.1% and 38.9% of projected emissions by 2020 as a national voluntary commitment.
Sole Paragraph. The projection of emissions for 2020 as well as the detailing of actions to attain the objective stated by the present article shall be stipulated by decree, based on the second Brazilian Inventory of Emissions and Anthropogenic Removals of Greenhouse Gases not under the Protocol of Montreal, to be concluded in 2010.
Art. 13. This Law enters into force on the date of its publication.

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