Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente - Cid Jardim

What Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente - Cid Jardim does

Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente (FEAM) is a state government foundation (autarquia) under the Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (SEMAD) of Minas Gerais, Brazil, operating as part of the Sistema Estadual de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos (SISEMA). The foundation is responsible for environmental licensing, dam safety regulation, and municipal environmental regularization across Minas Gerais, serving municipalities, businesses, and citizens through statutory authority derived from Lei Complementar nº 140/2011 and Lei nº 23.291/2019.

FEAM's core technology platform is Portal Ecosistemas, an integrated digital environment that consolidates multiple service modules under a single authentication layer: the Sistema de Licenciamento Ambiental (SLA) for issuing environmental licenses, the Sistema de Informações de Gerenciamento de Barragens (Sigibar) for dam registry and auditing, the Sistema de Gestão de Termos de Ajustamento de Conduta (GTAC) for environmental compliance terms, the Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas e Jurídicas (CADU) for entity registration, and the SIMMA-MG for municipal environmental coordination. The platform integrates with Jucemg for legal entity validation and Dataprev for personal data verification, and uses Power BI for the Sisema Indicators Dashboard. On the physical side, FEAM operates 18 Regional Environmental Regularization Units (URAs) distributed across Minas Gerais.

FEAM's business model is government budget allocation rather than commercial revenue generation. The only explicitly disclosed revenue stream is the TFAMG (Taxa de Controle e Fiscalização Ambiental) environmental licensing fee. The foundation is not a commercial enterprise and has no private equity, venture capital, or public ownership. Its headquarters are located at Rodovia João Paulo II, 4143, Bairro Serra Verde, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with 75 employees.

Name

Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente - Cid Jardim

Legal name

Fundação Estadual de Meio Ambiente

Website

https://feam.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

FEAM is a Minas Gerais state environmental foundation within SISEMA that provides environmental licensing, dam safety management, and municipal regularization services to municipalities, businesses, and citizens through Portal Ecosistemas and 18 regional offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Licensing and Regulatory Services

NAICS

Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241), Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs (924110)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial Environmental Protection & Natural Resources Administration (BPAIABAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Environmental licensing services
• Dam safety regulation
• Mining area restoration
• Municipal environmental regularization
• Environmental compliance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Belo Horizonte

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Environmental licensing fees (Taxa de Controle e Fiscalização Ambiental - TFAMG): Fees collected for environmental control and inspection services including licensing processing, inspections, and compliance monitoring

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente (FEAM) is the State Environment Foundation of Minas Gerais, Brazil, operating as the exclusive state authority for environmental licensing (licenciamento ambiental), dam safety management (segurança de barragens), and municipal environmental regularization. The agency operates 18 Regional Environmental Regularization Units (URAs) across Minas Gerais and delivers services through the integrated Portal Ecosistemas digital platform, supported by modules such as SLA, Sigibar, GTAC, CADU, and SIMMA-MG.

Product overview

FEAM operates as a unified digital platform (Portal Ecosistemas) with multiple integrated modules for environmental management. The core offering includes: the Sistema de Licenciamento Ambiental (SLA) for environmental licensing, the Sigibar dam management system, GTAC for environmental compliance terms, CADU for entity registration, and SIMMA-MG for municipal environmental coordination. The platform is complemented by the URAs regional service network and specialized services including mining area recovery, public hearings, and indicator dashboards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal Ecosistemas

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• IEF (Instituto Estadual de Florestas)coreTechnology or IntegrationSister agency within the Sisema system, collaborating on environmental management services. Both organizations are part of the state environmental system and share the Portal Ecosistemas platform.
• SEMAD (Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent state agency that oversees FEAM and other Sisema entities. FEAM operates under SEMAD's governance to implement state environmental policies.
• IGAM (Instituto Mineiro de Gestão das Águas)coreTechnology or IntegrationSister agency within the Sisema system, collaborating on water resources and environmental management. Both organizations share the Portal Ecosistemas platform.
• Municipalities of Minas GeraiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through SIMMA-MG system for municipalities that have assumed constitutional environmental licensing competence or receive delegated competencies through cooperation agreements.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IEF - Instituto Estadual de Florestas: Sister Sisema agency in Minas Gerais responsible for forest and biodiversity policy. Shares the Portal Ecosistemas platform and partnerships with FEAM, with overlapping customer base (municipalities, businesses) and parallel regulatory mandate.
• IGAM - Instituto Mineiro de Gestão das Águas: Sister Sisema agency managing water resources in Minas Gerais. Directly comparable in size, structure, and digital platform integration with FEAM; serves the same regulated population within the same state environmental system.
• CETESB - Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo's state environmental agency, widely regarded as Brazil's most advanced subnational environmental regulator. Comparable in licensing, enforcement, and digital service delivery, and a benchmark FEAM is measured against in capacity and technology.
• INEA - Instituto Estadual do Ambiente (Rio de Janeiro): Rio de Janeiro's state environmental and water resources agency. Performs analogous environmental licensing, dam regulation, and inspection functions for an industrial-heavy state, making it a structural and operational peer to FEAM.

Broad incumbents

• IBAMA - Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis: Federal-level environmental regulator with licensing and enforcement authority that overlaps with FEAM's mandate. Represents the higher tier of the Brazilian environmental regulatory stack and a natural escalator for FEAM-handled cases.
• SEMAD - Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: Parent state environmental secretariat that oversees FEAM, IEF, and IGAM. Acts as the umbrella regulator setting policy and budget; FEAM's outputs feed directly into SEMAD's statewide environmental governance mandate.

Others

• FEEMA - Fundação Estadual de Engenharia do Meio Ambiente (RJ, extinta): Former Rio de Janeiro state environmental engineering foundation, succeeded by INEA. Relevant as a historical structural peer to FEAM as a state-level environmental foundation (autarquia/fundação) model that has since been reorganized.

Regional players

• SEMACE - Superintendência Estadual do Meio Ambiente do Ceará: Ceará's state environmental regulator with licensing, monitoring, and enforcement functions. Operates in a different region but provides a comparable single-agency state environmental model against which FEAM's performance can be benchmarked.
• IMA - Instituto do Meio Ambiente de Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina's state environmental agency with licensing and oversight duties comparable to FEAM, but serving a different geography. Useful as a regional comparison on digital platform maturity and licensing throughput.
• SEMA-MT - Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso: Mato Grosso's state environmental secretariat, responsible for licensing and environmental management in a state with significant agribusiness and forestry activity. Operates in a different region with comparable subnational environmental responsibilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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