At the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, head of environmental management emphasizes integration between the Union and the States

Challenges and proposals for mitigating climate change were present at the first meeting of the Legal Amazon secretaries with the new executive secretary for the environment and climate change, João Paulo Capobianco, at the MMA building, in Brasília, who represented the minister , Marina Silva. The meeting was for the presentation of the managers, the ways in which each State operates and the exposure of the demands, including many difficulties amplified by the absence of the previous federal management. The meeting, which was part of the agenda of the 1st Ordinary Meeting of 2023 of the Forum of Secretaries of the Environment of the Legal Amazon, coordinated by the Task Force of the Governors for Climate and Forests (GCF Task Force), took place this Friday, 27, at MMA building.

On the agenda were present the urgencies to be faced and which are common to the nine states, such as illegal deforestation, as well as opportunities, in particular the promotion of economies compatible with sustainable development.

“We are going to need a lot of support from each state. There are many questions raised, clear demands that help a lot in reflection, and we are in an accelerated planning phase. It is very good to hear and receive the opportunities for alerts, demands and the willingness that everyone has put here to work together”, said João Paulo Capobianco, who also announced to those present that “The challenge is to conserve, including. Including, conserving. The forest is worth much more standing than deforested and illegal deforestation will have a heavy fight”, he emphasized.

In Pará, a state with a history of deforestation and which changes this reality every year, rapprochement with the Federal Government is synonymous with strengthening actions and preserving the living forest. The holder of the Department of Environment and Sustainability of Pará, Mauro O’de Almeida, welcomed the receptivity of the ministerial team and translates it as integration, essential to achieve better results.

“The states in relation to the Federal Government have an expectation that we can increasingly have the Ministry of the Environment as a great coordinator of actions that can be adapted and adjusted to the realities, diversities that the states have and in Pará it is a challenge in particular, as you all know, it has had the highest rate of deforestation for 15 years and is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in all of Brazil, a condition that we are not proud of, but that we are facing with policies, plans and actions that we can do beyond command and control, but to deliver alternatives so that we can produce without deforesting. And now is the time for implementation, ” he explained.

Composing the ministerial team, the secretary of traditional peoples and communities and sustainable rural development, from Pará, Edel Moraes, who collaborated for the newly built State Plan of Bioeconomy. “Edel has actively participated with us over the last few years in Pará, including in the construction of the Bioeconomy Plan, something that we are very proud of”, emphasized Mauro O’de Almeida.

Source Agency Pará