This Monday (May 31), eight former ministers of the environment are participating in an online event. Brazilian Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development Issuesto discuss democracy, politics and ecology. The webinar will take place at 19:00, with the broadcast. via Zoom, Facebook and Youtube of the Astrohildo Pereira Foundation (FAP), event organizer.
The webinar is sponsored by the Democracy Observatory and supported by 12 political foundations that are affiliated with parties such as PT and MDB. The participants will be: Carlos Mink, Edson Duarte, Isabella Teixeira, Jose Carlos Carvalho, Jose Goldemberg, Marina Silva, Rubens Ricupero and Sarni Filho. The mediation is carried out by Daniela Chiaretti.
According to Caetano Araujo, CEO of Fundação Astrojildo Pereira, the importance of the meeting is “to demonstrate the convergence between foundations of different parties around a minimum environmental agenda and countering the disastrous environmental policies of the current government”.
“This also indicates a possible overlap of positions on other programs and, mainly, on the protection of democracy in Brazil. This should be the first meeting with such a party scale, ”the director concluded.
In addition, the foundation is organizing the Climate Crisis and the Brazilian Amazon event, scheduled for June 7th. Guests – Ricardo Galvao, Adriana Ramos, Thelma Krug and Suely Araujo. Jovana Girardi will be the moderator.
FAP is an institution created in 2000 by the People’s Socialist Party (PPS) to preserve the memory of the journalist and politician Astrohildo Pereira, who founded the Communist Party of Brazil. The organization seeks to promote research and debate on current issues. The Observatório da Democracia, on the other hand, joins leftist party foundations to monitor government action through the production of information and events.
