Amazon
Fund approves its first three projects on the eve of COP-15
04/12/2009
- The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) announced at a
meeting of the Amazon Fund Guidance Committee (COFA), on
Thursday (December 3), in Belém (PA), the approval
of the first three projects which will receive resources
from the institution. Next week, the minister of the Environment,
Carlos Minc, and the president of BNDES, Luciano Coutinho,
will announce three other projects awarded.
One
of the projects, called "Green Cities", is a proposal
coordinated by the NGO Imazon, in association with other
NGOs, which will receive R$ 12 million to be invested in
various municipalities of Pará.
Another
project is coordinated by the NGO The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) and will receive R$ 16 million. In partnership with
other environmental institutions, measures such as recovery
of degraded areas will be taken, among other actions that
promote environmental practices in the municipalities of
Mato Grosso, including those located in the "arc of
deforestation".
The
third project is coordinated by the Amazonas Sustainable
Foundation, of the state government of Amazonas, and will
receive R$ 20 million. The financial resources received
will be converted into payment for environmental services
for the extractivist communities for the recovery of degraded
areas, improvement of extractivist reserves and other activities
that promote environmental conservation.
The
Amazon Fund is managed by BNDES and has R$ 150 million for
financing more projects to be approved in January and February
2010, from the total amount of R$ 1 billion that will be
donated by Norway until 2015. The Fund's Guidance Committee
is based in Belém and gathers representatives from
state governments of the Legal Amazon, from the Brazilian
federal government and from civil society organizations.
The
Amazon Fund will have a stand in Copenhagen, at the United
Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP-15), which begins
next Monday (December 7).
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