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Purpose

To support energetic efficiency projects.


General Projects

Basic Sanitation

Projects on collecting, treatment and final disposition of industrial, commercial, residential and hospital solid residues. The projects should involve investments related to the closing of eventual garbage deposits (lixões) existing in the region. 

Projects included in the Programs of Hydrographic Basin Committees

Implementation of collecting networks with adequate final destination and sanitary sewage treatment systems. 

Management of hydric resources: management modernization, monitoring and improvement of information systems; services and processes directed to controlling and inspecting the different uses of water and to implementing initiatives in the environmental education area. 

Ecoefficiency: Rationalization in the Use of Natural Resources

Reduction in the use of hydric resources: treatment, reuse and closing of circuits. 

Reduction in the consumption of energy for producing goods and providing services. 

Substitution of fossil fuels (diesel oil and gasoline) for renewable sources (biodiesel, ethanol, hydric, eolian or solar energy). 

Increase in internal and external recycling of materials. 

Voluntary use of cleaner technologies: systems of prevention, reduction, control and treatment of industrial residues, effluents and pollutant discharges. 

Restoration and Conservation of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Restoration of river-edge forests and erosion control. 

Formation, restoration, maintenance, preservation, monitoring and compensation of Legal Reserve Areas and Permanent Preservation Areas. 

Tourism projects contributing to the development of Integral Protection Conservation Units and Natural Property Private Reserves integrating the National System of Nature Conservation Units. 

Research of Brazilian's nature substances for the development of pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and spices. 

Clean Development Mechanism

Viability study, project preparation costs, Project Conception Document [PDD] and other costs related to the validation and registry process. 

Planning and Management

Environmental or integrated management systems; qualification of enterprises' technical staffs and constitution of an organizational unit dedicated to environmental matters; environmental certification. 

Environmental Impact Studies and respective actions aiming at preventing or mitigating environmental impacts. 

Restoration of Environmental Liabilities

Restoration of degraded, mined or contaminated areas, such as: old depositions, deposits of solid residues or abandoned earth embankments, lending areas, discharges, liberation of liquids, oils and greases, percolation of harmful substances, contaminated water table, presence of amianthus or transformers with ascarids, modified areas subject to erosion and land collapses, salty land, Legal Reserve Areas and Permanent Preservation Areas degraded or used for other purposes. 


Operating Modalities

Direct operation (carried out directly with BNDES) 
Indirect Operation non-automatic (carried out through an accreditted financial institution)  


Financial Conditions

For direct support: TJLP + BNDES Fee + Credit risk rate

For indirect support: TJLP + BNDES Fee + Financial intermediation rate + Accredited Financial Institution fee

BNDES Spread (Direct and Indirect Operations)

0.9% p.a.

Credit Risk Rate

Up to 3.57% p.a. (according to the beneficiary's risk).

Accredited Financial Institution Fee

Negotiated between the accredited financial institution and the client; for operations guaranteed by the Guarantee Fund for Protection of Competitiveness [FGPC] (Guarantee Fund), up to 4% p.a.

Financial Intermediation Rate

0.5% p.a.
Obs.: Operations with micro, small and medium enterprises are exempt of the financial intermediation rate.



Share Level

. Up to 100% for projects in Northern and Northeastern Low Income Cities or Lower Average Income Cities (within SUDENE’s field of activity)

. Up to 90% for projects in Northern and Northeastern Lower Average Income Cities and High Income Cities (within SUDENE’s field of activity) or Low Income Cities or Lower Average Income Cities from the other regions of the country

. Up to 80% for projects in other cities




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