25/08/2011 - Ministers
of the Environment from Brazil, South Africa,
India and China will meet on August 26th
and 27th in the municipality of Brumadinho,
on the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais,
to discuss climate change. In the ministerial
meeting, the group known by the acronym
BASIC will have the opportunity to coordinate
positions and formulate concrete proposals
to be presented at the 17th Conference of
the Parties (COP-17) to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
to be held in Durban, South Africa, from
November 28th to December 9th, 2011.
The group has already
met seven times, and the last one was held
in South Africa, in May. Brazil is now hosting
the eighth meeting due to a criterion of
turnover between members, and it will be
attended by the Brazilian Minister of the
Environment, Izabella Teixeira. "The
four countries have common interests on
climate change and represent an important
leadership among emerging nations,"
said the Head of the Office for International
Affairs of the Ministry, Carlos Roberto
Fonseca. "Expressing their positions
together, the countries can increase the
political weight of the group's decisions",
he says.
BASIC meetings have
occurred regularly every three months and,
as in previous editions, the program is
divided into two phases. On August 25th,
discussions between experts and negotiators
from the four countries will take place.
Minister Izabella Teixeira will join her
counterparts on August 26th and 27th.
Inhotim - The municipality
of Brumadinho, located 50 km far from the
capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,
was chosen to host the ministerial meeting
for housing the Inhotim Institute, the most
important outdoor center for contemporary
art of South America, inserted in a botanical
garden of 100 hectares. The Ministers will
meet in an environment surrounded by native
forest.
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Minister Izabella Teixeira
attends ceremony marking 30 years of CONAMA
31/08/2011 - The Minister
of the Environment, Izabella Teixeira, today
(August 31) opened the 103rd meeting of
the National Environmental Council (CONAMA),
which celebrates its 30th anniversary. The
date refers to the enactment of Law nº
6,938, which established the National Environmental
Policy.
The Policy has set instruments
for environmental management and environmental
impacts assessment. It was also responsible
for structuring the National Environmental
System (SISNAMA) and the creation of CONAMA.
