The “chapters” CNA, MICOA and MITADER closed, it was imperative to innovate a State body that would adapt to the current challenges to ensure environmental sustainability in the country’s economic and social development process, which includes the rational use of land and forests resources, the conservation of biodiversity and the prevention of all forms of environmental degradation including those that contribute to global warming and climate change at the local and/or regional level, in particular deforestation.
This is how the MTA (Ministry of Land and Environment) was created, created through Presidential Decree No. 1/2020, of 17th of January. In essence, with the exception of rural development, the MTA’s mission is to continue, deepen and consolidate the work carried out by MITADER in the 2015-2019 period.