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Lula restores Brazil's Amazon deforestation-control plan by decree (2023)

On 1 January 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued Decree No. 11,367, restoring the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm) and establishing a permanent interministerial commission.

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On 1 January 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued Decree No. 11,367, restoring the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm) and establishing a permanent interministerial commission.

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    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued the presidential decree that restored PPCDAm. The contribution is limited to that direct executive act and does not assign him sole responsibility for later deforestation outcomes.

What changed

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What the sources establish

This record covers the signed executive act, not sole personal responsibility for later changes in deforestation.

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No causal path is recorded: this fact is not linked to a driver.

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Factrail. (2026). Lula restores Brazil's Amazon deforestation-control plan by decree (2023). Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/env-fact-lula-restores-ppcdam-decree-2023

https://factrail.ai/facts/env-fact-lula-restores-ppcdam-decree-2023

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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