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The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) published in the Official Gazette of the Union, this Friday (1/8) the final composition of the Social Participation Chamber of the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (CIM). The members of the board, created to promote the participation of civil society and the private sector in the formulation and monitoring of climate policies in Brazil, can be consulted.
The selection process of the 24 holders and their respective alternates was guided by the Notice 01/2025/CIM, published in the Federal Official Gazette on April 11. The choice of members of the Chamber, which also has two vacancies for the Brazilian Climate Change Forum, had wide transparency and its acts were published on the official website of MMA.
Conducted by an interinstitutional selection committee constituted as expected to be expressed in the notice, which ensured legitimacy to the process, the choice involved representatives of the MMA, the Presidency Civil House and the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.
The committee also had technical support from the team of the Department of Climate Governance and Articulation of the National Secretariat for Climate Change of MMA, which performs the activities of CIMs Executive Secretariat. The collegiate gathered four times along the selection process.
The choice of the 48 representatives of society in climate decisions in the country obeyed criteria of representativeness and inclusion, such as diversity of economic segments, regional balance, history of acting in environmental policies and gender parity and ethnic-racial representativeness. The decisions were made by consensus based on the documentation presented by the applications.
In addition, the Federal Government extended the deadline for applications for candidates to the Chamber of Social Participation to comply with the request of environmental entities and institutions linked to the environment. With the extension, the interested entities had ten more calendar days to approve the applications. According to the announcement, each institution could suggest three names for the board.
After the publication of the preliminary result, a period of appeals was opened between June 11 and 17, 2025. In response request from the Friends of the Beach (GAP) group, which questioned the lack of detailed justifications for decisions, the selection committee, based on the opinion of the MMA legal consultancy, decided to republish the preliminary result, which occurred on June 27, 2025, accompanied by the full list and the full list of the list and entities.A new resource period was opened between June 30 and July 4th. The technical analysis took place at the 4th Ordinary Meeting of the Selection Committee, held on July 21. It was deliberated, by consensus, for the rejection of the resources, with the consequent maintenance of the preliminary result published in June. The final decision was sent to SUBEX for official approval and publication.
The CIMs Social Participation Chamber was created by Decree No. 12,040 of June 5, 2024, to promote the participation of civil society and the private sector in the formulation and monitoring of climate policies in Brazil. Its goal is to ensure informed decisions, with the contribution of different voices and experiences, to effective solutions that meet local realities.
Among its attributions, the House must submit proposals to the EXECUTIVE SUBROMITE (SUBEX) and the full ministers of the Committee to help align public policies of climate change with the needs of different sectors of civil society.
The CPS coordination will be in charge of the executive coordinator of the Brazilian Climate Change Forum, Sergio Xavier.
