FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles is seen during a meeting of the LIDE (Businessmen Leaders Group) in Campos do Jordao, Brazil, April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil intends to reduce the size of its environmental policymaking body but does not plan to have it report to a new council controlled by President Jair Bolsonaro as his aides proposed last year, a government minister said on Monday.
Environment Minister Ricardo Salles denied an Associated Press report on Monday that the government is considering creating a new council that would replace Conama, the current policymaking body with nearly 100 members from all levels of government and society.
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