Civil society organizations are preparing to hand delivery to President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) a document with 14 central proposals for the sustainable development of the Amazon, with the possibility of presentation within the first 100 days of the next term. The PT will be at COP 27, in Egypt, on the 15th and 16th, and the agenda is being organized by the network Uma Concertação pela Amazônia, responsible for preparing the package of actions.
With more than 200 pages, the document includes provisional measures, presidential decrees, resolutions and bills that go beyond environmental policies and address issues related to the social well-being of the Amazon population, investments in infrastructure and integrated public security actions.
130 people were directly involved in 10 technical debate forums in the elaboration of the document “100 first days of government: proposals for an integrated agenda for the Amazon” – the plural is used to refer not only to the preserved forest, but also to the region converted into agricultural and mineral activities, the so-called arc of deforestation and urbanized areas.
The document seeks structuring solutions for socioeconomic issues associated with environmental policy actions, such as education, public security and infrastructure for the Legal Amazon, a territory that encompasses 9 states (all 7 in the North region, in addition to Mato Grosso, in the Midwest, and Maranhão, in the Northeast) and where almost 30 million Brazilians live. Climatic emergencies and socioeconomic actions.
One of the first measures advocated by the Concertation is the creation of a Secretary of State for Climate Emergencies, directly linked to the Presidency of the Republic. This new authority “would represent a signal to Brazilian society and the international community about Brazil’s willingness to take the global lead in the race for decarbonization,” the document states.
In the social area, one of the priorities is suggested by the use of resources from the Fund for Universalization of Telecommunications Services (Fust) to serve “traditional communities and small rural producers, especially for public education and health facilities”.
In public security, a resolution is proposed to give priority to an operational tactical program involving the nine states of the Interstate Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Legal Amazon.
In infrastructure, the document proposes, through a presidential decree, the qualification of infrastructure projects in the Legal Amazon in the Investment Partnerships Program, which could anticipate the assessment of socio-environmental impacts in the decision-making process.
“The Legal Amazon brings to Brazil the opportunity to propose and exercise an innovative model of development that the whole world is looking for. That is, those capable of generating wealth and income with environmental conservation, social inclusion, expansion of civil rights and low carbon emissions”, write Renata Piazzon, Executive Secretary of Concertação, and Roberto Waack, one of the co-founders of the initiative. For them, illegal deforestation is both a cause and a consequence of the region’s serious development problems and, therefore, it is necessary to envisage structuring and transversal solutions.
Renata and Waack state that it is necessary “to overcome the predatory economic model that condemns Brazil to backwardness and compromises investments and the creation of businesses and jobs of the future, connected with the most advanced visions of global society”.
“The result of this situation is the worsening of the quality of life of the local population, damage to the economy and the growing isolation of Brazil in the international scenario. If the current rate of destruction is maintained, the Amazon will reach a point from which there will be no turning back. This imposes an urgency in the adoption of these measures. The difficulty in generating income and well-being, especially for the region, ends up creating a scenario of propensity for illegality and crime, deepening vulnerabilities”, they say.
Source: CNN Brasil
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