Access to Quality Environmental Data (BR0111)

What is the public problem that the commitment will address? The environmental data currently generated by federal, state and municipal governments, and within the various government bodies that generate or hold such data, lack standardization in format and in how they are made available to civil society. Users interested in environmental issues should be allowed to access integrated data, or data capable of integration, preferably without the need to access multiple platforms to obtain them.

What is the commitment? The commitment is an effort to address problems related to standardization, consolidation and integration of environmental data, considering the need to improve quality and availability standards. Thus, initially, federal, state and municipal public bodies involved will be surveyed to verify how they can help enhance environmental data availability, integration and standardization to increase transparency for civil society. Next, given the short implementation deadline for the commitment - December 2022 - each public body involved will start implementing internal actions, preferably in alignment with the other public bodies involved and civil society, in order to complete the first stages of the data standardization and data access improvement effort.

How will the commitment contribute to solve the public problem? The commitment aims, in cooperation with civil society, not only to improve environmental data governance, through the coordinated action of public bodies, but also to develop a plan establishing measures for federal public bodies aimed at improving the structure of previously defined databases, with a view to discuss and prepare a preliminary proposal of technical standards to enable federal and national data integration.

Why this commitment is relevant to OGP values? This commitment is relevant to OGP values of transparency, social participation and accountability. Although a lot of information is already generated and made available, it is disclosed on different platforms and in different formats. Improving environmental data integration and access increases the effectiveness of the right to information in environmental public policies (transparency). Enabling greater standardization, consolidation and integration of environmental data also allows for a better understanding of public policies, which, in turn, enhances the capability of civil society to both influence decision-making processes and conduct public oversight more effectively and with increased accountability.

Additional information • Commitment budget: budget definition depends on progress in the participatory process of defining the changes to be implemented the systems of the public bodies involved. Currently, for example, Ibama is already implementing initiatives whose cost is estimated between 10 and 12 million reais, with a view to improving how environmental data is made available to civil society. • Other related government programs include the following: INDEX Portal; INDA Portal; Ibama and INPE Open Data; integration of SINAFLOR with state systems (Native Vegetation Protection Law). • This commitment helps implement the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): • SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation • SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts • SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt the biodiversity loss • SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Milestones (with verifiable deliverable) Start Date: End Date: Milestone 1 - Definition and prioritization of databases to be included in the commitment to improve data integration and quality December 2021 December 2021 Milestone 2 - Assessment of the quality of the data structure on the open databases defined on Milestone 1 January 2022 February 2022 Milestone 3 - Assessment of recommendations March 2022 April 2022 Milestone 4 - Development, with civil society engagement, of a plan establishing measures for federal public bodies to address Milestone 2 recommendations April 2022 May 2022 Milestone 5 - Discussion of technical standards for federal and national data integration: drafting of a preliminary proposal, with civil society participation May 2022 May 2022 27 Milestone 6 - Assessment of the commitment’s deliverables and definition of next steps April 2022 December 2022

Action Plan Review

Commitment 1. Access to Quality Environmental Data