Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente

What Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente does

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente (SEMA-MT) is the official state environmental authority of Mato Grosso, Brazil, operating under the Government of Mato Grosso with 501-1,000 employees and headquartered in Cuiabá. The agency is responsible for environmental control, preservation, conservation, and recovery across Mato Grosso, encompassing portions of the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal biomes. Its mandate spans environmental licensing (Licença Ambiental Simplificada, Licença por Adesão e Compromisso, full impact studies), enforcement via Taxa de Fiscalização Ambiental and auto de infração penalties, rural environmental registration through CAR DIGITAL 2.0 and SIMCAR, and biodiversity, fisheries, and water-resource governance.

SEMA-MT operates a portfolio of more than 25 integrated digital platforms, including SIGA for environmental management, SIMLAM for licensing, SISFLORA 2.0 for forest management, SIMGEO for georeferenced environmental information, SIGA Hídrico and Outorga for water resources, SisPass and Sisfauna for wildlife, Carteira de Pesca Amadora for amateur fishing, Sistema PGRS for solid waste management plans, and Rede Simples MT integration for business licensing. The Desmatamento Ilegal Zero platform and Plataforma de Monitoramento da Cobertura Vegetal provide daily satellite-based monitoring over 100% of state territory with deforestation detection from 1 hectare. Programs include Carbono Neutro MT for carbon credit stewardship and the Todos Pelo Araguaia and Projeto EVA initiatives.

The agency's revenue mechanics are government-centric: primary funding flows from the Mato Grosso state budget (subscription-style recurring allocation), supplemented by transaction-based fees from licenses and inspections, administrative fines, and external inflows from international climate finance partners including the Fundo Amazônia (BNDES-managed), Programa REM (REDD+ Early Movers), and the GCF Task Force. The ICMS Ecológico mechanism redistributes a share of state tax revenue to municipalities based on environmental performance. Customers include rural landowners, agribusinesses, industrial and infrastructure enterprises requiring impact assessments, conservation units, sports fishers and wildlife permit applicants, and municipal governments. Distribution combines regional directorates, the Descentralização Ambiental municipal program, physical citizen service centers, the SEM@ Virtual channel, digital self-service portals, an 0800 hotline, and a WhatsApp Ouvidoria, all under the oversight of four state collegiate councils covering environment, water resources, REDD+, and fisheries.

Name

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente

Legal name

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso

Website

https://sema.mt.gov.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

SEMA-MT is the official state environmental authority of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It delivers environmental licensing, real-time satellite deforestation monitoring, rural property registration, and conservation services to rural landowners, agribusiness, industry, municipalities, and citizens across the state.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

State Environmental Regulation

NAICS

Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (924), Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs (924110), Administration of Conservation Programs (92412)

SIC

Forestry (800), Water Supply (4941)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Permitting & Impact Assessment (EIA/NEPA) (BPAIAMAK)

Keywords

• Environmental regulatory services
• Deforestation monitoring systems
• Rural environmental registration
• Forest management systems
• Water resource governance

Headquarters

HQ city

Cuiabá

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Environmental Licensing Fees: Fees collected for environmental licenses including simplified licenses, adhesion licenses, and impact studies
2. Environmental Inspection Fees: Fees for environmental inspection and monitoring activities
3. Environmental Fines: Administrative penalties for environmental violations collected through auto de infração system
4. ICMS Ecológico: Ecological state tax redistribution mechanism to municipalities meeting environmental conservation criteria
5. State Government Budget Allocation: Operational funding from Mato Grosso state government budget

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente (SEMA) is the official state environmental authority of Mato Grosso, Brazil, responsible for environmental control, preservation, conservation, and recovery. It issues environmental licenses, registers rural properties through the CAR system, monitors deforestation via satellite in real time across 100% of the state, manages forest, wildlife, fisheries, water resources, and solid waste programs, and operates an integrated suite of digital platforms to deliver these regulatory services to citizens, landowners, and businesses.

Product overview

Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente (SEMA) is the environmental authority of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The organization operates a comprehensive suite of digital systems for environmental management, licensing, monitoring, and compliance. The core systems include SIGA (environmental management), SISFLORA 2.0 (forest management), SIMCAR/CAR DIGITAL 2.0 (rural property registry), and SIMLAM (licensing management). These are complemented by specialized services for wildlife management (SisPass, Sisfauna), water resources (SIGA Hídrico, Outorga), fisheries (Carteira de Pesca Amadora), and waste management (Sistema PGRS). Environmental monitoring is enabled through satellite-based deforestation alerts and vegetation coverage tracking. Citizen services are delivered via SEM@ Virtual, while business licensing is integrated with Rede Simples MT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIGA (Integrated Environmental Management System)

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% of Mato Grosso territory monitored via satellite in real-time
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and secondary.

• Programa REM (REDD+ Early Movers)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the REM program for forest conservation and REDD+ implementation in Mato Grosso. The program provides results-based payments for verified emissions reductions from forest conservation.
• GCF Task ForcemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the GCF Task Force for climate finance and Green Climate Fund related initiatives supporting forest conservation and climate mitigation in Mato Grosso.
• ANA (Agência Nacional de Águas)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Brazil's National Water Agency for water resource management, monitoring, and governance in Mato Grosso's river basins.
• Conselho Estadual do Meio AmbientecoreOthersState Environmental Council serving as the collegiate decision-making body for environmental policy in Mato Grosso.
• Conselho Estadual de Recursos HídricoscoreOthersState Water Resources Council for water governance and policy decisions in Mato Grosso.
• Conselho Gestor do Sistema Estadual do REDD+coreOthersState REDD+ System Management Council overseeing carbon credit and forest conservation programs.
• Conselho Estadual da PescasecondaryOthersState Fishing Council for fisheries management policy decisions.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CETESB (Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo): São Paulo's state environmental agency operates the broadest environmental licensing and monitoring apparatus in Brazil, directly comparable to SEMA-MT in mandate (licensing, pollution, biodiversity) though at much larger operational scale and budget.
• SEMAD-MG (Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentêvel de Minas Gerais): Minas Gerais' state environmental secretariat oversees environmental licensing, monitoring, and conservation across a comparable Brazilian state, mirroring SEMA-MT's combination of licensing systems, water-resource governance, and forest policy.
• INEA-RJ (Instituto Estadual do Ambiente do Rio de Janeiro): Rio de Janeiro's state environmental institute performs licensing, monitoring, and conservation across a Brazilian state using a similar integrated digital-platform approach, making it a structural peer to SEMA-MT's regulatory-IT model.
• SEMA-PA (Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade do Pará): Pará's state environmental secretariat performs the same statutory mix of licensing, forest monitoring, and enforcement as SEMA-MT, and is one of the most directly comparable Brazilian state-level environmental regulators given shared Amazon biome responsibility.

Others

• MapBiomas: A multi-institution Brazilian land-use and vegetation-cover mapping collaboration that SEMA-MT's Plataforma de Monitoramento da Cobertura Vegetal is methodologically adjacent to, supplying comparable annual biome change data used in Mato Grosso environmental policy.
• INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais): Brazil's national space research institute operates the PRODES and DETER satellite-deforestation programs that underpin much of SEMA-MT's monitoring data. INPE is an upstream data and technology provider rather than a direct regulator, but is critical to SEMA's satellite-monitoring capability.
• Imazon (Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia): An Amazon-focused research institute producing SAD and DEGRAD deforestation monitoring products for the same region SEMA-MT covers, serving as a complementary data and policy-research partner for state environmental agencies operating in the biome.
• SOS Mata Atlântica: Brazilian environmental NGO producing annual Atlantic Forest deforestation mapping and operating conservation programs. While not a regulator, it is a peer stakeholder whose monitoring and advocacy functions overlap with SEMA-MT's biodiversity and conservation mandate.

Broad incumbents

• ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade): The federal body responsible for Brazil's conservation units overlaps directly with SEMA-MT's state-level conservation-unit management and biodiversity programs, including wildlife handling permitting analogized by SisPass and Sisfauna.
• IBAMA (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis): Brazil's federal environmental agency provides the national-level umbrella over state bodies like SEMA-MT. Although federal rather than state, it shares the environmental licensing, enforcement, and deforestation-monitoring remit that defines SEMA-MT's operations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/semamatogrosso
• Facebookfacebook.com/SemaMatoGrosso
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sema-mato-grosso

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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