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Rio turns headquarters of the World Centre for Sustainable Development

06/25/2013

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An initiative of the Ministry of Environment, in partnership with the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), was launched on Monday (24/06), in Rio de Janeiro, the World Centre for Sustainable Development (Rio + ), in a ceremony at the Botanical Garden. The Rio + work in a space provided by Coppe / UFRJ, in Fundão Island.
  
UN referral center for the promotion of the integration of the economic, social and environmental RIO + will facilitate research, knowledge sharing and promote the international debate on sustainable economic, social and environmental.
 
The Setup Project Rio + was approved a year ago, at the Conference on Sustainable Development Rio +20 UN, held in Rio de Janeiro. The Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira, and the State Secretary for the Environment, Carlos Minc, attended the launch of Rio +.
 
The Rio + meet an international consortium of partners made up of representatives of government, non-governmental organizations, universities and the private sector, creating a unique space to discuss ideas and innovative actions to build a sustainable world.
 
Among these representatives are the Getulio Vargas Foundation, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), UNDP, UNEP (United Nations Program for the Environment), the City of Rio and the federal and state Rio de Janeiro.
 
One of the first activities of the RIO + will proceed to evaluate the discussions and suggestions gathered through the platform of the Rio +20 Sustainable Dialogues (www.riodialogues.com) - launched before the Rio +20 Conference last year. The dialogues were launched by the Government of Brazil - with the support of UNDP - and so far engaged more than 12,000 citizens and experts in discussions related to Rio +20.
 
"The opening of this center world is a defining moment for the global development community and represents a strong urge to meet the challenges and opportunities of our contemporary world," said Rebeca Grynspan, Deputy Administrator of UNDP and the UN undersecretary-general.
 
The Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira, said that the discussion and definition of Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) are part of the important role that the RIO + will perform.
 
"The RIO + will also be a significant political space for the promotion of dialogue with society, opening doors to universities, the private sector, governments and all people interested in discussing and promoting sustainable development," he said.
 
The Secretary Carlos Minc stressed the importance of Rio de Janeiro to host an institute of the UN.
 
- The Rio will be the place where they will be assembled economists, social scientists, among many other international researchers who will discuss and debate the best technological solutions, scientific and practices for sustainable development on issues such as services, sanitation and transportation - explained.
 
Shares held in Rio
 
Minc recalled the creation of unprecedented Fund Green Energy and Development for the City University of UFRJ, in October 2012.
 
"With annual funding of £ 7 million, resulting from the portion of the Tax on Circulation of Goods (GST) that UFRJ normally pay on your bill, the Green Fund will revert to the benefit of the university itself, because it will fund the development and implementation of sustainable projects that UFRJ develops as installation in Fundão Island of photovoltaic panels for the production and use of electricity from the sunlight, and a retrofit green (sustainable reform) University Hospital. Investments are important for a place to host this important center of the UN, "he recalled.
 
The secretary also said that the State Government has been striving to deploy clean energy in the state.
 
The creation of the RIO + was announced on the last day of the Rio +20 Conference in June 22, 2012, by the Minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira, and the UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, who signed the partnership and presented the objectives of the center
and its 26 initial partners.



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