Functions
- Promote the protection, restoration and conservation of ecosystems, natural resources, goods and environmental services, to help monitor their use and insure sustainable development.
- Develop and implement a national policy on natural resources, in such that the administration of such policy is not borne by state and local governments, nor by individuals and corporations.
- Promote environmental management within the national territory, in coordination with federal, state and municipal governments, and with participation from the private sector.
- Evaluate and provide determination to the environmental impact statements for development projects submitted for public, social and private decision on the environmental risk studies, as well as programs for the prevention of accidents with ecological impact.
- Implement national policies on climate change and protection of the ozone layer.
- Direct work and studies on national meteorological, climatological, hydrological and geohydrological systems, and participate in international conventions on these subjects.
- Regulate and monitor the conservation of streams, lakes and lagoons of federal jurisdiction in protected watersheds, and protect the environment.
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