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Well, I did want to highlight,
I mean, the Amazon we all know it |
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and the importance of the Amazon. |
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The Ministry has said oxygen, water,
biodiversity, Brazilians for the planet. |
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That is, if we don’t win the war against
deforestation as preservation |
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of the rainforest, we will not win
the war against climate change. |
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So I want to highlight that. |
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And here we have Columbia,
just pointed out which I’ll be talking |
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about Colombia in the northwest Amazon. |
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And as I’ll show a few pictures,
I’d like you to focus a little bit here |
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on the northwest Amazon. |
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Here is just to show the stretch we have.
Do I preserve the forest? |
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We have first maps that we’ve produced
recently of the whole Amazon basin |
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and here we have the search of
deforestation which we know |
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come from soya, from cattle ranching,
et cetera. |
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Here we have the set of hydropower
which is -- the yellow part is the |
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forest that are being flooded by the
hydropower, right, which is also |
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creating both gases and deforestation
or destruction of the forest. |
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We have roads which also increment
deforestation and colonization, mining, |
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et cetera, hydro waste, gas. |
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We have petroleum or oil, mainly,
the red ones. |
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Here the red is already an exploitation.
These are possibilities. |
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Also, looking here in the Colombia,
we’ll look at that in a moment, |
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the possibilities of exploitation of oil. |
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And here we have mining which is
also an enormous threat. |
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Some of the mining,
some of its potential, |
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and some is already on the way. |
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These just give a picture of the
stretch of the Amazon basin. |
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Now, here I wanna highlight the north.
If you focus on the north a little bit, |
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you would have seen that the north
is the less -- northwest is the less |
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threatened by of the Amazon basin. |
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It’s based preserve. |
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It has passed the highest biodiversity,
the highest cultural diversity, |
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and is less threatened than the rest
of the forest. |
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In the Colombian, this is the northwest, |
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and in Colombian the northwest area, |
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as the Minister said, we have this
in yellow indigenous territories |
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which are native territories,
belong to indigenous people, |
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55 different ethnic groups. |
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We have here natural parks and
we have here forest reservation. |
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Eighty two percent of the whole
area is protected under some |
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type of figure. |
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Now, what I would like to highlight
here with the indigenous people coming |
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back here was in these indigenous
territory these are local governments. |
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What’s important about indigenous
people, they have been setting up the |
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local governments during the last
20 years and that means that there’s |
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a traditional knowledge that can be
extremely useful for the protection |
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of the rainforest. |
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These are people that have been
living for ten thousand years in |
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these areas with the same IQ as |
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all of us and have been thinking
about it and they have intimate |
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knowledge about this. |
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And this is a tremendous potential. |
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If we just look in their traditions,
how they have -- |
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land use
and land planning, |
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and if we can bring that out,
it will add to our knowledge |
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in a very substantial way. |
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So I highlight that in Colombia
this is going forward in the territories |
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and they have their own local
government, already decentralizing, |
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having education, handling health. |
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And I’d like to highlight this also. |
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The government has conserved a
million dollars in tradition, education, |
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and health, which is normal. |
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But it’s done on their knowledge,
on their basis, |
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and this is conservation of
the forest also. |
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Not only wait, not only what
the market can do, |
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but we can do into government
by supporting a traditional knowledge, |
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a traditional way of thinking,
traditional way of handling the land |
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through these people. |
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It’s extremely important for the conservation. |
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Now, Colombia has stretch,
the Minister pointed out. |
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Here we have the colonization
coming in. |
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Here we have mining coming in.
Here we have oil. |
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We have the stretch in Colombia.
But what makes Colombia particularly |
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interesting is that it’s all recent. |
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We still have time to get in there
before kills comes in. |
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The mining is small mining.
We have time to look into that |
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and try and control it. |
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The oil, they’ve said, we are
willing to pull back if you’re |
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going to conserve the rainforest
or at least come to terms. |
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So what we are -- what we are
proposing here is that in the |
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same idea as the Minister,
strengthening here in this area then |
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business communities so they can
handle the land and they can |
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get into red also. |
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Strengthening, making the parks
bigger, or strengthening this whole are |
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and strengthening colonization,
that is bringing red |
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to the colonization. |
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It’s not destructive. |
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They’re stabilizing colonization, right.
But what’s particularly interesting in |
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this case I find in Colombia is that we’re
trying to do it all together and we think |
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that that has to be done. |
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We have to share at the table the people
of mining. |
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We have to share to people of oil.
We have to share at the same table |
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the government, the indigenous people,
the colonizers, and the NGOs. |
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We have to think it together. |
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The Amazon is our responsibility. |
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It’s not that we have laws in favor
of environment and we’ll fight against |
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the laws that have -- the people have
right mining and the ones that have |
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rights for Indian people. |
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It is getting together.
It is working together. |
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And Colombia is the laboratory and an
enormous opportunity really to build together |
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and to look at other economies, not only --
or market economy and by large by diversity |
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economy, intellectual economy. |
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Look at other ways of thinking and building
together to preserve the forest. |
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Thank you. |
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Very good, on time. |
