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Responsabilidades Diferentes
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Different responsibilities
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THE COUNTRY; Montevideo, 14 of May of 2008
Hernán Sorhuet Bleak

Gelós is the present panorama of the international efforts to mitigate the climatic change.

As the humanity is assuming the magnitude of the problem that means the global heating - and its incidence in the call climatic change something improve the possibilities of facing the challenge better possibilities of success. We left mainly from several accepted assumptions. First it is that we have unquestionable tests scientific that they demonstrate that the released gases of conservatory in enormous amounts by the action of the human beings, are warming up the atmosphere and modifying the climate.

The second is that the development of the human activities based on the energy of hydrocarbons (petroleum, coal, gas), taken ahead during several centuries, was an error that there is to correct.

Third it is that, before so serious problem, common but differentiated responsibilities exist. The world is one single one and all the societies emit gases conservatory. But doubt that does not fit the contribution of gases has been - and will follow siéndolo- very despareja. Few states are responsible for the immense majority of the atmospheric contamination. The rest, almost without taking part in the generation of the global problem, will suffer the severe effects like anyone; and in many cases, more than anyone, if for example we considered to the small states insulares.

The costs of the measures of mitigación and adaptation to the climatic change, and of the cooperation that will be necessary to be successful in those strategies - access to modern technologies, greater fairness in the markets, valuation of the environmental services in great strategic ecosystems as the forest and humedales- are contributions that correspond to him to make the developed nations, because on them it most of falls the responsibility to the generation of the problem (they are most polluting). It is easy to include/understand that it is in this crucial point where the international negotiations are flooded. Once again it is demonstrated that it is possible to be discussed, with rationality and solids arguments, any subject by thorny that is. But, if it involves “the pocket” of the seated ones to the table of negotiations, the parameters of the discussion change dramatically, devaluating the responsibility and the common sense.

The bleak thing is explained then which the present direction of the international efforts appears to mitigate the climatic change, working in strategies that are simple remiendos, as if it was wanted to deal the cancer with analgesic. Let us think about the carbon market, the lukewarm support to the development of alternative energies, about the minimum efforts of the developed nations to make specific significant reductions of its emissions.

The quarter is that, the logic of the prevailing market does very difficult to rectify the course, in spite of the guessed right diagnoses of the situation available. This takes that almost exclusively the situation analysis through crystal of the economy is dominated. If the measures, the agreements or the propose policies are profitable, surely they will be applied. Otherwise, the more influential nations of the world, as well as multilateral organisms, will continue hoping “to see that it happens”, not knowing the severe warnings formulated by very serious and reliable studies, like the one of the Intergubernamental Panel on Cambio Climático (IPCC).

By the sight we will continue learning the blows.

May 15, 2008 | 4:53 PM Comments  0 comments

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Rio de Janeiro e a CNMA
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Rio De Janeiro and the CNMA
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Niterói, 27 of April of 2008

Rio De Janeiro locked up has three weeks its almost III Conference of the Environment, who knows, the lesser state conference of the country. If it cannot blame the population for the disinterest to debate on what the future it reserve, if we continue of crossed arms front to the crisis of the Brazilian ambient management. As elect commission agent for the of the state of Rio de Janeiro productive sector, I evaluate with hopelessness the participation of my sector in III the Conference. I conclude my evaluation deciding on my proper participation.

We live a democratic revolution that it intends to change Brazil in the Government Squid, for the awareness and the comprometimento of the population. Not lead for a vanguard politics, but for the ample participation of the Society in the construction politics of the sovereignty and the sustentabilidade. Brazil that all we construct is democratic, just, sustainable sovereign and. Sustentabilidade supported in solidarity and the social equality, where the individual and collective rights are in the center of the national agenda.

The State must have its distributive character consolidated and its extended spaces of participation. The reform of the public administration is not in game alone, but yes the paper of the Society in the management of the State. The redefinition of the paper of the State requires a new model of state management: the participativa management and the social control. Through the National Conferences, the Government Squid considers mechanisms of defense against the retrocession politician, economic and social, advancing in the permanent construction of a democratic and participativo State, on the basis of a project of sustainable development for the country.

The Conferences implemented for President Lula are not only spaces of debate and mediation, but of dispute of civil hegemony against the clientelista culture and the neoliberal values. The magnifying of the mechanisms of co-management of the public power and the joint between representative democracy and participativa democracy, are basic to fight the practical clientelistas, valuing it says of the rights and the introduction to it of new social protagonists who represent the majority of the population.

In this process, forts interests had been opposed. Of that the economic elites and its chairmen see the power as something exclusive them politicians. Of that they profit from the continuous submission to the interests of the imperialism and the globalization. E, finally, of that they control the public resources and they privatize the State, repudiating the social politics of inclusion and the recognition of the rights of the workers and the excluded ones.

The National Conference of the Environment represents for the Society, the expectation to be breached with the State that, in the past, the privatization of the public resources supported, the exhaustion of the natural resources and the exportation of the human resources; e, on the other hand, to guarantee the capacity of the Government in democratizing with ousadia the public administration and in fortifying with courage the social control in the conduction of its ambient politics.

For III the National Conference of the Environment, the Society carried through or supported hundreds of related regional conferences to the politics of environment for the Government of Brazil. The phenomenon of the institutionalization is present in the states and cities, having been created advice, specialized secretariats and coordinations, fortifying the National System of the Environment. The principles in dispute in the National Conferences of the Environment are of the people who fight for the dignity human being, the natural patrimony and the quality of life.

We dispute one ambient politics that guarantees the collective good above of the private interests, that fight the inaqualities and the social exclusion when promoting the income distribution, the permanent education and the ambient sanitation; for spoon then, the joust prosperity, through the strategical integration enters the social development of the cities, the ambient sustentabilidade of the habitat and the ecological citizenship of the collective. I had the honor, while ambientalista and entrepreneur, of being elect commission agent for Rio De Janeiro for the Conferences of the Environment, the Cities and Pesca and Aqüicultura.

But the Government of Brazil will not be possible to play the leadership role that we wait, if not to absorb as action and responsibility of the State, the task to advance in these fights, assuming the paradigm that is not enough to deal with with equality the different ones. The crisis that affects the National Conferences of the Environment, with unexpected retrocessions, cannot in them take the deceits. For certain, it it demonstrates the fragility of the existing ambient politics.

Não podemos admitir que os movimentos sociais e populares brasileiros sejam a correia de transmissão do Governo, para assumirem o papel determinante no aprofundamento da democracia, cujo alicerce primeiro deve ser a ampliação da participação popular nos espaços públicos, o fortalecimento do controle social sobre o Estado e a predominância dos interesses coletivos sobre a lógica do mercado. As i ** nstrumentos of direct democracy, the National Conferences of Brazil must guarantee the participation of the popular masses in the some levels of direction of the process organization politician, with agile mechanisms of popular consultation, libertos of the subordination to the Government and capable to express the collective interest.

In the Conference of the Environment of this year in Rio De Janeiro, the Society answered readily to the challenge provoked for the Ministry of the Environment and the State secretary of the Environment, to organize the most democratic and participativo ambient diagnosis and made politician already of its State System of the Environment, of form organized, voluntary and regulated for norms and commitments ranks to all the states for III the National Conference.

With accumulation of the previous experiences, we look for together - the Social Sector and the Productive Sector - to skirt the last errors and to place to the disposal of the Commission the State Organizer to carry through, without any support or resources of the Government, seven Regional Conferences in all the State of Rio De Janeiro. However, after more than one year and almost a hundred of unfruitful meetings in the Supervision of the Ibama in Rio De Janeiro, in a commission of representatives of Government, Society and Production, I felt me used, manipulated and deceived for the Superintendent of the Ibama, that transformed a process of popular consultation into a strategy of personal marketing and an event between friends. The Minister Marina Hisses thus made to know its spokesmen.

III the Conference of the Environment was directed by proper interests of members of the ONG that already was under the direction of the current manager of the Ibama. In such a way, a program of government under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Environment, was privatized in Rio De Janeiro. In the Supervision of the Ibama, strange people to the public administration had signed, represented, delegated and pledged resources on behalf of the public agency of the federal administration.

We, of Rio De Janeiro, learn in the proper meat that the dominant organisms of the process of accomplishment of the Conferences of the Environment, had not had democratic commitment voluntarily some with none of the sectors of the involved Society and the Economy, in all the processes of its organization. The relation with us was purely tactical, when they had served themselves of the democratic way, pragmatically, while them she was convenient.

The Commission State Organizer of III the Conference still has plus one and last responsibility, for more ungrateful than either, since the history of its members is interlaced per years of convivência in the ambientalistas movements of Rio De Janeiro. If not to select now, through the clear signals perceived in III the State Conference, the shunting lines of behavior and administrative disobediences occurred in the Supervision of the Ibama under the management of Lawyer Rogério Rocco and friends, the risks that run in our state, the ambient politics of the Government Squid, will be spectacular.

I wait, without a doubt, that the National Conference if includes sovereign in the National System of the Environment, as an invocation to the Society so that let us assume together the responsibilities on the future of the new generations. Not only of Brazil, but of all the Planet. But so that such responsibilities are not under the wills and vanities of public managers, but under the guardianship of the State, always convoked with autonomy for the National Advice of the Environment, supreme agency of the ambient management of Brazil, one more time fortifying the National System of the Environment.

The State secretary of the Environment, represented for the Supervision of Agenda 21, and to the Of the state of Rio de Janeiro Federal University, represented for the Cabinet of the Director, us all, without a doubt, we only have what to be thankful. The results harvested for the participation of both the institutions, had been the true surplus of III the Conference of Rio De Janeiro, allied to the difficult participation of the Society, guaranteed with proper efforts and méritos. Aos delegados que partem para Brasília, desejo que, mais uma vez, confirmem o nosso valor cívico já demonstrado pela delegação fluminense nas últimas edições da Conferência Nacional. It was with honor and joy that I shared all these difficult moments with vocês. A good trip and my more sincere ecological greetings.

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