21/02/2011
Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment
of Brazil, and Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister
of Barbados, have accepted the UN Secretary-General's
invitation to join the Global Sustainability
Panel. The new members are expected to participate
in the upcoming meeting of the GSP in Cape
Town, South Africa (24-25 February 2011).
Created in August 2010,
the Panel brings together renowned world
figures to formulate a new blueprint for
a sustainable future on a planet under increasing
stress resulting from human activities.
The GSP will issue its
final report by the end of 2011. Its inputs
will feed into inter-governmental processes,
including preparations for the UN Conference
on Sustainable Development (Rio 2012), and
the annual meetings of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The
Panel is supported by a small secretariat
within the Secretary-General's office in
New York (USA).
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Brazil creates its committee
on Reverse Logistics
18/02/2011
The Steering Committee for the Implementation
of Reverse Logistics Systems, collegial
body referred to in the National Policy
on Solid Waste, was established yesterday
(February 17) at a ceremony at the Ministry
of the Environment, in Brasília.
Comprise the Committee, in addition to MMA,
the Ministry of Health; the Ministry of
Finance, Agriculture, Livestock and Food
Supply; and the Ministry of Development,
Industry and International Trade.
The first task of the
Committee is to review and approve its own
rules, as prepared by the technical team
that advises the council. The next task
is the establishment of the strategic implementation
of reverse logistics systems throughout
the country.
The Steering Committee
will also approve studies of technical and
economic feasibility and define methodological
guidelines for assessing the social and
economic impacts of reverse logistics.
'Reverse
logistics' is the set of actions, procedures
and means to facilitate the collection and
recovery of solid waste for reuse in their
own productive cycle or other productive
cycles, or for other environmentally
appropriate disposal.
