Por Fabíola Ortiz

RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 Junho (TerraViva) – O alerta é global: um terço das espécies no mundo correm risco de extinção. São quase 20.000 espécies em perigo, anunciou a União Internacional para a Conservação da Natureza que lançou, nesta terça-feira, dia 19 de junho, a Lista Vermelha de Espécies Ameaçadas durante a Conferência Rio+20.

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Por Clarinha Glock

RIO DE JANEIRO, junho 19 (TerraViva) – A indígena Sheyla Juruna chorou ao falar sobre a construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, no Xingu, norte do Brasil. Em meio a seus “parentes” – como se refere aos demais representantes dos povos indígenas reunidos na Cúpula dos Povos, evento paralelo à Rio+20. -, ansiosa por participar das discussões, as lágrimas de Sheyla revelam sua impotência diante das inúmeras tentativas feitas até agora de barrar a obra.

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Por Mario Osava

RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 junho (TerraViva) O alvo foi o Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES). É porque financia as hidrelétricas que estão desgraçando a vida dos índios, justificou Renato Nambikwara, do Mato Grosso.

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Por Fabíola Ortiz

RIO DE JANEIRO, 18 Junho (TerraViva) – O mundo se comprometeu até agora a restaurar apenas 18 milhões de hectares de florestas até 2020, o que corresponde a apenas 12% da meta de 150 milhões de hectares acordada no Desafio de Bonn, na Alemanha, em 2011.

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Por Clarinha Glock

 RIO DE JANEIRO, junho 18 (TerraViva) – Enfeitada com um colar de penas e carregando um cartaz escrito à mão, Rosenilda Candido, 38 anos, indígena do grupo Terena, mostrou por que veio da aldeia Bananal, em Aquidauana, no Mato Grosso do Sul, ao Rio de Janeiro para integrar-se à Cúpula dos Povos. Continue Reading

Por Fabiana Frayssinet * – TerraViva

RÍO DE JANEIRO, 18 jun (IPS) Responsables del sector financiero de varios países asumieron el compromiso de incorporar el concepto capital natural en sus productos y servicios para defender un patrimonio que, según entienden, necesita un precio para impedir más devastación. Continue Reading

Fabiana Frayssinet

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 18 (TerraViva) – U.N. Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner believes that he and the Rio+20 People’s Summit agree that the global economic model has caused the current environmental destruction. But the discussion on what to replace it with turned into an acrid debate.

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Fabiana Frayssinet

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 18 (TerraViva) The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) face a key choice: to opt for “good” development aid, based on sustainable development, or for the “bad” old traditional model, which they criticised when they were its recipients.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation and the World Bank have jointly produced a video explaining the concept of “natural capital accounting” in the run-up to the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The seven-minute video news release (VNR) was created as part of a World Bank campaign for countries to carry through on promises to include the full value of natural resources in their national income accounts.

“Natural capital accounting would add to GDP an understanding of the wealth that is stored in our natural resources – the wealth upon which we depend for a lot of that income: minerals before they’re mined, forests before they’re felled, water whilst it is in the rivers and clean,” says Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s vice president of sustainable development and one of the experts interviewed.

Produced by the Foundation’s award-winning multimedia team with funding from the World Bank, the video explores how natural capital accounting could help countries to measure who benefits and who bears the cost of changes to ecosystems. It includes interviews with Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute; Alvaro Umana, Costa Rica’s former environment minister; Carolina Urrutia of Colombia’s National Planning Department; Tom Griffiths of the Forest People Programme; and Laisa Santos Sampaio, a Brazilian rainforest activist.

Any opinions expressed in the VNR are those of the World Bank or the speakers interviewed and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The VNR can be downloaded for free from the following link on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/43840145

IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, is a long standing member of COM+. It helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges by supporting scientific research; managing field projects all over the world; and bringing governments, NGOs, the UN, international conventions and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.

The world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries.  IUCN’s work is supported by over 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest and most important conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development.

The 2012 World Conservation Congress will be held from 6 to 15 September 2012 in Jeju, Republic of Korea. Leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and social organizations will discuss, debate and decide solutions for the world’s most pressing environment and development issues.

The Congress starts with a Forum where IUCN members and partners discuss cutting edge ideas, thinking and practice. The Forum leads into the IUCN Members’ Assembly, a unique global environmental parliament of governments and NGOs.

Effective conservation action cannot be achieved by conservationists alone. The 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress is the place to put aside differences and work together to provide the means and mechanisms for good environmental governance, engaging all parts of society to share both responsibilities and the benefits of conservation.
For more information on the World Conservation Congress go to http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/