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Adriana Moura Mattos da Silva

Adriana is a senior lawyer of ESG, Human Rights & Business and Environmental & Climate Change practice areas. She has several years of legal experience with sustainability and socio-environmental matters, focusing on a wide range of subjects, including ESG strategy, corporate governance and sector-specific national/international ESG regulations, Private Social Investment and Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and Human Rights, community engagement, indigenous peoples, quilombola and traditional communities, diversity, equity and inclusion, environmental regulation, forestry regulation, supply chain management, socio-environmental crisis management. She supports clients in legal matters related to all ESG regulation and integration aspects, supporting their decision making, representing national and international clients in M&As and IPOs, project finance and capital markets, advising asset managers and funds on their investment policies, ESG screening procedures, and decision-making criteria, advising financial institutions and insurance companies on the incorporation of ESG criteria on their activities and representing clients in litigation related to ESG matters.  

Practice Area

Panels

  • Contributing Author
  • International Panel

Qualified Year

  • 2013

Experience

  • Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga (2018 - Present)

Membership

  • Brazilian Bar Association

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (2013)
  • Master of Public Policy (MPP) (2017)

Education

  • Federal University of Bahia Law School (2013)
  • JusPodivm: Postgraduate diploma in Constitutional Law (2014)
  • CEDIN: Postgraduate diploma in International Law (2015)
  • Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Management – Master’s in Public Management and Policy (2017)
  • Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHBR): Master’s Course on Business and Human Rights (2022)
  • Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights: Protecting Human Rights and the Environment (2023)

1 Contributions by Adriana Moura Mattos da Silva

Brazil ESG for lawyers: enforcement and licensing, ISSB-aligned CVM reporting, SBCE carbon market, supply chain and green claims exposure, consumer law scrutiny and collective litigation
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Brazil ESG for lawyers: enforcement and licensing, ISSB-aligned CVM reporting, SBCE carbon market, supply chain and green claims exposure, consumer law scrutiny and collective litigation
Executive narrative Brazil’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework is best seen as a layered federal–state–municipal enforcement system, with significant real‑economy effects and unusually robust public enforcement and collective litigation routes. In practice, ESG risk commonly materialises through: environmental permitting, embargoes, fines and remediation duties handled by federal and state environmental bodies within the National Environmental System (SISNAMA) public civil actions (ação civil pública) and prosecutor‑led settlements that can advance more quickly than regulatory procedures capital markets disclosure oversight by the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM), now expressly linked to International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) sustainability standards consumer and advertising scrutiny of sustainability claims under the Consumer Defence Code, regulators, and Consumer Protection and Defence Offices (PROCONs) advertising self‑regulation under the supervision of the National Council for Advertising Self‑Regulation (CONAR) Corporate reporting The most notable recent structural change for corporate reporting is CVM Resolution No. 193 (20 October 2023), which governs the preparation and disclosure of sustainability‑related financial information in line with ISSB standards. This is not limited to ESG narrative: it is a disclosure‑control framework drawing boards, audit committees, CFO functions and external assurance discussions into sustainability reporting...
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