Environmental Audit

Brazil holds the world's largest tropical rain forest and one of the largest fresh water reserves on Earth. Deterioration
of environmental conditions on a regional and worldwide scale has caused the private and public sectors to adopt environmental policies and management tools.

Environmental audits have the purpose of examining and evaluating the legal, technical, and administrative aspects of institutional activities that are directly or indirectly related to the environment, in order to improve their performance with respect to the preservation of our natural resources.

The Court's main activities in this regard include the performance of environmental audits; taking into consideration, whenever possible, the environmental aspects as other types of audits are conducted; the identification of the environmental impact of the government's main projects and programs; the creation and maintenance of a database of environmental legislation and jurisprudence; membership in the Special Technical Commission on the Environment of the Latin American and Caribbean Superior Auditing Institutions - OLACEFS and the organization of seminars, together with other auditing entities, for the exchange and publicizing of information related to environmental issues.