May, 2009
ENHANCING GLOBAL SUSTENTABILITY
THROUGH GLOBAL COOPERATION
BRAZIL
Historical Data
-Atlantic Forest – 1950 y-Linhares reserve, an area of 23.000 ha in order to prevent the fires in the region, 50.000 ha today-Mr. Erling Lorentzen, from Norway, began the eucalyptus forestation, in areas that were already degraded. -Aracruz Celluloses origin-Private investments from Brazil and Sweden
May, 2009
Forest Park of the Tubarão Harbor, in the city of
Vitoria, Espirito Santo, the first in the world that
was built inside of a representative sample of
the Atlantic Forest, having not only the objective
of showing how to recover a forest but,
regarding to education skills too.
-I’m remembering these facts with the intention to show that in that time neither the word ECOLOGY existed at that time and how important is the vision and the leader presence to change minds and concepts. -Sustainable Development concept with all its components present – environmental, economic and social, applied for the first time in the Vale do Rio Doce Company and the Aracruz Cellulose.
May, 2009
Amazonia Carajas Project –Vale do Rio Doce Company-the biggest project on integration of mining, rail, harbor and ocean navigation-the concept of SD applied on a large scale -Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny develop the theory of Sustainable Development presented in the Rio 92 Conference.
May, 2009
Concepts and practices that drive the Carajas Project
-First project with a big dimension in Amazonia,sustainable development concepts applied. -GEAMAN - a council formed by the best recognized scientists of Brazil-cooperation of international scientists
May, 2009
The misunderstanding about the Carajas Projects
May, 2009
The actual Carajas Project -preserved one million of ha of forest around the mining area-a city of 250.000 habitants linked to the project built in the forest-gardens-houses adapted to the climate of Amazon-the ecology in the curriculum of the schools- it has a cultural life-no poverty-the best hospital in Amazon-people there has the forest in their day life, everyone knows that the sustainability depends on the forest preservation
May, 2009
Private companies -special emphasis to the application of sustainable development in its systemic conception, in the projects of infrastructure - petroleum, gas, energy generation, door-to-door integrated logistics and others-a program of up-to-date research-Brazilian scientists and international cooperation
May, 2009
I-Bio – Instituto Bio- Atlantica- a non-profit corporation-formed by the most important companies in Brazil like Petrobras, EBX, Vale do Rio Doce, Aracruz, Votorantin, Klabin among others-foreign members as DUPONT, International Conservancy, Natural Conservancy -has a program of research and development.
May, 2009
Rio Doce Watershed Today
• Total area: 8.3 MM hectars (83 K km2)
• Planted forests: ~ 200-300 K ha
• Forest Cover (native + planted + perm. crops): ~ 17%
• Economy: mining, celulose, agriculture, pig iron, steel (~ 3% of Brazilian GDP)
• Environment:
• 87% of riparian areas degraded
• less than 1% protected
• river flow reduced by 70% since 1940
• Population: ~ 3.4 million inhabitants
• Logistics: railroads, highways, ports, energy
• Cattle productivity: 1 animal per 2 to 5 hectars
• More than 70% of the properties lack proper documentation
• 1,1 million hectares of permanent protected areas deficit (law requirement)
• River flow reduction
• Rural migration
• 80% of the watershed’s surface transformed in pasture and degraded land
• Flagship species at risk of extinction (f. ex. northern muriqui - Brachyteles hypoxantus)
Indicators of the Non-sustainable model at the Rio Doce Watershed
© Russel Mittermeier
General Objective: “Promote, through forest restoration and the creation of
incentives for sustainable land use activities,
particularly forest plantations, the development of an
attractive environment for private investors, in a
planned and integrated manner, generating economic
and social results and environmental conservation in
rural areas”
Rio Doce Sustainable Watershed Program
Plan for the Sustainable
Development of the Rio Doce
Watershed
Pilot Projects
Strategy’s Architecture
• Credibility• Scale• Visibility• Partnerships
• Productive models• Payment for Environmental
Services (carbon and water) models
Forest Business
Model for the
RioDoce
Basin
Rio Doce Sustainable Watershed Program - STRATEGY
Riparian area deficit
Low productivity pasture
Degraded soils
Low productivity agriculture
Polluted waters
Legal Reserve 5-6%
SORCE: Adapted from APREMAVI
Typical property at the Rio Doce Watershed
today:
Infrastruture
Restores riparian areas
Ranching
Forest management
Reforestation and fruits
High yield agriculture
Aquaculture
Infrastruture
Ecoturism, bee keeping
Legal Reserve 20%
SORCE: APREMAVI
Future model property at the Rio Doce
Watershed: ACTIVITIES
Water and carbon payments
Rural Credit
Rural Credit and Carbon
Rural Credit and Carbon
Rural Credit
Rural Credit
Own Capital
Water and carbon Payments
Reserva Legal 20%
FONTE: APREMAVI
Future model property at the Rio Doce
Watershed: FUNDING
Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo
Instituto BIOATLANTICA