Brazil and Copenhagen

Please join the Brazil Institute along with the Inter-American Dialogue
for a discussion of

The Road to Copenhagen: Progress and Challenges on Sustainable
Development in Chico Mendes's Homeland

Featuring

Arnóbio (Binho) Marques, Governor of the Brazilian Amazon state of
Acre

Foster Brown, Senior Scientist, Wood Hole Research Center

Adriana Gonçalves Moreira, World Bank Senior Environmental Specialist,
Sustainable Development Department for Latin America and Caribbean
Region

Moderators: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson
Center; and Michael Shifter, Vice
President for Policy, Inter-American Dialogue.

Monday, October 5, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

RSVP to amanda.earley@wilsoncenter.org
Simultaneous translation will be provided

Building on the legacy of Chico Mendes’ socio-environmentalism, in
the last twenty years his followers in the state of Acre have developed
and implemented the most successful sustainable development strategy in
the Amazon basin. The pioneering work of the father and martyr of
Brazil’s environmental movement has flourished in a series of
innovative approaches guided by the concept of florestania , or
forestinzenship, which brings together the expansion of citizenship
rights with demands for better quality of life for the peoples of the
Rainforest. As governments and environmental, scientific and business
organizations prepare to launch the negotiations of a new global
protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in December, Copenhagen, the
governor of the state of Acre, Binho Marques, will present an overview
of achievements and challenges, including new paths for regional
cooperation and integration with Peru and Bolivia, countries that share
borders with Brazil in Acre. “This integration still has to do justice
to the thousands of Bolivians, Peruvians and Brazilians who live on the
Amazon border, where poverty contrasts with a rich nature," said the
Governor in a recent interview. Two experts on the Acre experience,
Foster Brown, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, and
Adriana Gonçalves Moreira, Senior Environmental Specialist at the World
Bank Sustainable Development Department for Latin America and Caribbean
Region, will offer their perspectives.