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22/04/2013
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Danilo Macedo
Brazil Agency reporter
Brasília - The minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gilberto Carvalho said President Rousseff will lead to the proposal of a national conference to discuss the specific sustainable development project for Brazil. The proposal, representatives of civil society, was made during the seminar Social Dialogue: Post-2015 Schedule and Follow-up to Rio +20, yesterday (16) at the Presidential Palace.
"The conference should contribute so that Brazil can actually follow a process able to distribute income and especially [develop] the environmental issue," said the minister. "Society here complained of lack of participation, whether in the [Organization] United Nations, whether inside the country, in order to give an effective contribution to the model of economic development, social and environmental," he said.
The Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira, who also attended the event, said that Brazilian society is "massively mobilized." According to her, Brazil has achieved good results towards sustainable development, but need to reach the next level.
"We are a country that has exceptional results in the last ten years in relation to poverty eradication, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation in the Amazon, progress on the issue of sustainable consumption, but we need to be more aggressive in permanent solutions to country, I always say that Brazil has several Brazils in one Brazil, "said the minister.
Editing: Fabio Massalli
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