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CHN heads to the World Social Forum in Brazil

Global Program, The Biosphere Ethics Initiative

January 27th, 2009

CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele will be representing CHN at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Belém, Brasil January 27-February 1st, 2009. “The World Social Forum is an opened space – plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan – that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world; [it is] a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism.” http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/.

While in Belém, she will be chairing the CHN-sponsored workshop, “Keeping Nature Alive: the Biosphere Ethics Project (BEP) and Brazil’s Local Agendas 21.” This workshop aims to advance the work of CHN and the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law on the creation of a code of ethics for biodiversity conservation. Karla Monteiro Matos, Director of Citizenship, Social and Environmental Responsibility of the Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, will be providing her expertise on the implementation of the international Agenda 21 Programme in Brazil. BEP Co-Chair Patrick Blandin, Professor at the Paris Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, will also be joining the project’s involvement at the WSF.

Kathryn has also been asked to present the work of the Biosphere Ethics Project at the Local Agenda 21 Day events of the WSF. They have also been asked to represent the project at Earth Charter events. In addition, Kathryn and Patrick will join Karla for a site visit to a Local Agenda 21 Amazonian community, just south of the state of Para. Here, they will be able to gain invaluable insight into the implementation of this international document at the most local of levels. This will be the third formal case study for the ethics project, following Chicago Wilderness and South African National Parks.

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