The director of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's Department of Environmental Education, Claudison Rodrigues, participates this week - from September 16 to 19 - of the VI Ibero-American Congress on Environmental Education, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the opening, he will speak to participants of the need to include climate change in all public policies to be created from now on.
"Climate change is the great contemporary global question. The loss of biodiversity, the problems related to water and soil... All this will be emphasized by temperature increase", Rodrigues said. "This is an international transboundary problem - and this being so, we must involve absolutely everyone."
The National Plan on Climate Change, launched by the Brazilian government in December 2008, will also be presented by the director during the event. According to Rodrigues, it is a basis for the creation of new environmental education initiatives, centered on the mitigation and anticipation of climate change effects as well as on adaptation to them.
In Brazil, environmental education has always been dealt with through social-environmental policies, including social participation in decision making. Rodrigues says this can lead the country to play an important role in the debate on environmental education.
Thematically called "Enriching Environmental Education Proposals for Collective Action", the congress' main aim is to increase international environmental educator networks, as well as to discuss policies for the creation of sustainable cities.
Brazil hosted the fifth edition of the Ibero-American Congress, held in Joinville (state of Santa Catarina).
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