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

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Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo

Instituto BIOATLANTICA