United Nations Development Programme Regional Preparatory Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Conference on Sustainable Development

Preparatory Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Conference on Sustainable Development. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. This document has been reproduced without formal editing. ii Executive summary The objective of this study is to examine the evolution and characteristics of the financing for the environment in Brazil, in order to identify the advances and retreats after the Rio 92 Conference. Brazil has a very decentralised administration, composed of three independent levels of public administration: the federal government, 27 state governments, and more than 5000 “municípios, ” or municipalities; all of them with specific environmental institutions. However, there are no indicators that aggregate information from these different institutional levels. Thus, this study is a first effort to generate this kind of figures. Given the very short time for its completion, the main priority was to identify the resource flows from the federal government and some selected states. Efforts to estimate the spending on pollution control and other environmental activities by the private sector wer