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Brazil may have an educational policy for sustainable consumption

18/08/2010

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From the perspective of domestic routine, the preservation of the environment can go far beyond the separation of waste for recycling and the purchase of food free of pesticides

Moreover, this conscious practice could be encouraged by the school if approved bill of the House (PLC 270/09) establishing a policy of education for sustainable consumption.
The matter is ready to be voted by the Committee on Environment, Consumer Protection and Surveillance and Control (CMA).

The adoption of practices of consumption and environmentally sustainable production techniques is the goal of this policy.
The project conceptualized as consumption sustainable use of natural resources to ensure quality of life for the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations.

Incentives to reduce consumption of water and energy in residential and professional environments; recycling of solid waste, some considered dangerous or difficult to decompose, such as batteries, tires and bulbs; exploitation of natural resources based on ecologically sustainable management techniques are some of the objectives listed by PLC 270/09.
Educational campaigns in the media and training of teachers of elementary and secondary school would be the ways to enhance the awareness of Brazilians on sustainable consumption.

"Promoting education for sustainable consumption is to encourage citizens to act as agents of conservation, whose choices may lead the economic sector to make the production process compatible with the ecological limits," argued Ms Rebecca Garcia in justification of his project.

The rapporteur on the CMA, Senator Renato Casagrande (PSB-ES) has recognized the merit of the project, but instead of creating a specific law on sustainable consumption, recommended the inclusion of this concept in environmental legislation already in force.
Thus, references to sustainable consumption would appear to Law 6.938/81, which deals with the National Environmental Policy and Law 9.795/99, which establishes the National Policy on Environmental Education.

For the replacement to be voted on in committee, promotion and adoption of standards of consumption compatible with sustainable development would include the recommendations of these two laws in favor of the involvement of society in environmental conservation. After examination by the CMA, the matter will be voted on terminative decision (that is taken by a committee, with the value of a Senate decision. Clears When finished, the project does not go to Plenary: depending on the type of matter and the voting result , it is sent directly to the House of Representatives sent to the penalty, issued or filed. It will only be voted by the full Senate action is with this objective, signed by at least nine senators, is submitted to the Bureau. After the vote of the opinion of
committee, the deadline for lodging an appeal to the findings of the full Senate is five days.) Committee on Education, Culture and Sports (EC).


Source: Agência Senado
Author: Franco Simone
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