Green Municipalities Program: LESSONS LEARNED and CHALLENGES for 2013/2014
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Green Municipalities Program: LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES FOR 2013/2014 PROGRAMA Green Municipalities Program: LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES FOR 2013/2014 PROGRAMA The Green Municipalities Program (Programa Municípios Verdes – PMV) is a Pará State Government program developed in partnership with municipalities, civil society, private initiative, Ibama and the Federal Public Prosecution Service, with the objective of fighting deforestation and strengthening sustainable rural production through strategic actions for environmental planning and environmental management, with a focus on local pacts, deforestation monitoring, implantation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and structuring municipal management. The Green Municipalities Program was launched in March 2011 through State Decree no. 54/2011, under coordination of the Office of the Chief of Staff, specifically the figure of Extraordinary Secretary of State for Coordination of the Green Municipalities Program (SEPMV). The PMV has a Steering Committee responsible for strategic decisions and an action plan for the program, made up of 21 members, ten representatives of the government, eleven representatives from civil society, as well as the Federal Public Prosecution Service, Ibama and State of Pará Public Prosecution. Actions are carried out by a group of governmental and non-governmental institutions that make up the PMV Executive Council. SEPMV Team Alessandra Zagallo (SEPMV/Cabinet adviser), Ana Lucia Vilhena Muniz (SEPMV/ adviser for Environmental and Land Title Planning), Bruno Marianno de Oliveira (Imazon Consultant/support for PMV), Camilla Miranda (SEPMV/Coordinator for Institutional Articulation), Belém, April 2013. Denys Pereira (SEPMV/Coordinator for Sustainable Production), Diego Andrade de Araújo (SEPMV/ Communications Advisor), Felipe de Azevedo Nunes Lopes (SEPMV/Legal Coordinator), Igor Corrêa Pinto (SEPMV/Coordinator for Sustainable Production), Julianne Marta Moutinho (SEPMV/Coordinator for Environmental Management), Justiniano de Queiroz Netto (SEPMV/Extraordinary Secretary), Karlla Julianna Marruás Almeida (SEPMV/Chief of Cabinet), Marussia Whately (Imazon Consultant Imazon/support for PMV), Wendell Andrade (Sema/PA). Organization Marussia Whately Maura Campanili Green Municipalities Program: LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES FOR 2013/2014 Belém, April 2013. PROGRAMA © Green Municipalities Program: Lessons learned and challenges for 2013/2014 Coordination Marussia Whately and Maura Campanili Collaborators Adalberto Veríssimo, Ana Lucia Muniz, Bruno Marianno, Daniel Santos, Denys Pereira, Diego Andrade de Araujo, Felipe de Azevedo Nunes Lopes, Igor Corrêa Pinto, Julianne Marta Moutinho, Justiniano de Queiroz Netto, Raphael Pacheco Silva Neto, Wandreia Baitz Edition and text revision Maura Campanili Maps Imazon – CGI Editorial design Ana Cristina Silveira / AnaCê Design Translation John Moon The data and opinions expressed in this publication are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of those financing this study. Acknowledgments and interviewees Adnan Demachki (former Mayor of Paragominas), Adorisvaldo Pereira (Municipal Environmental Secretary for Santana do Araguaia), Antonio Correa Pinto de Oliveira (Executive Manager at Pará Rural), Bruno Oliveira, Carlos Fernandes Xavier (President of Faepa), Carlos Guedes de Guedes (President of Incra), Carlos Souza Jr. (senior researcher at Imazon), Cassio Pereira (researcher at Ipam), Cristiane Fontes (coordinator CLUA/Climate Works), Daniel César Azeredo Avelino (Federal Attorney/MPF Pará), Edilberto Poggi (Municipal Environmental Secretary for Dom Eliseu), Felipe Zagalo (Municipal Environmental Secretary for Paragominas), Gilberto Miguel Sufredini (former Mayor of Tailândia), Gizele Luciana Cabral Ramos (Municipal Environmental Secretary for Novo Repartimento), Hidelgardo Nunes (State Secretary for Agriculture in Pará – Sagri), Hugo Américo Rubert Schaedler (Ibama Superintendent in Pará), José Alberto da Silva Colares (State Secretary for the Environment in Pará), José Conrado Santos (President of Fiepa), Mauro Lúcio de Castro Costa (Presidente of the Union of Rural Producers in Paragominas), Orly Bezerra, Paulo Amaral (senior researcher at Imazon), Paulo Barreto (senior researcher at Imazon), Paulo Tocantins (Mayor of Paragominas), Simão Jatene (Governor of the State of Pará), Sidney Rosa (Chairman of the PMV Steering Committee/Special Secretary for Economic Development and Incentives for Production in the State of Pará), Teresa Moreira (Specialist in Environmental Governance at TNC), Thays Borges, Verônica Oki, Zelma Luiza da Silva Costa (former Municipal Secretary of the Environment for Altamira). Our thanks to the following Institutions Vale Association for Sustainable Development – Vale Fund; Regional Council for Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy (Crea/PA); State Company for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension of Pará; Federation of Agriculture and Ranching of Pará; Federation of Municipal Associations in the State of Pará; Federation of Industries in the State of Pará; Skoll Foundation; Avina Foundation; Ibama/ Superintendency in the State of Pará; Institute for Economic, Social and Environmental Development of Pará; Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources; Institute for Forestry Development in the State of Pará; Amazon Institute for Environmental Research; Pará Land Institute; Institute of People and the Environment of the Amazon; International Institute for Education in Brazil; National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform; Socioenvironmental Institute; Federal Public Prosecution Service; Municipal Government of Paragominas; Pará Rural Program; State Treasury Secretariat; State Agriculture Secretariat; State Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation; State Secretariat for Regional Integration, Urban and Metropolitan Development; State Secretariat for the Environment; Special Secretariat for Economic Development and Incentives for Production; Special State Secretariat for Infrastructure and Logistics for Sustainable Development; Municipal Environmental Secretariat of Paragominas; Municipal Environmental Secretariat of Dom Eliseu; Municipal Environmental Secretariat of Novo Repartimento; Municipal Environmental Secretariat of Santana do Araguaia; Union of Rural Producers in Paragominas; The Nature Conservancy. Message SIMÃO JATENE Governor of the State of Pará he Amazon is a prodigious generator of myths and swings back and forth from a vision of an ecological sanctuary to that of breadbasket Tfor the world, which feeds back to the vicious cycle of the polarized debate between preserving and producing, as if it were possible in the XXI century to continue to expand agricultural and ranching production in the Amazon based upon the logic of deforestation and degradation of natural re- sources. That thesis is clearly unacceptable because of the high environmental and social costs generated by such a model. One cannot thus make the Amazon into an untouchable ecological sanctuary where economic activities are largely forbidden, ignoring the need for generating high quality development for the 24 million inhabitants in the Legal Amazon, of which more than seven million occupy the State of Pará. The answer to this dilemma between preserving and producing is the rational and sustainable use of natural resources in the Amazon by considering that the region has a vocation as a major provider of environmental services. The good news is that we have moved forward from a theoretical formulation of sustain- able development to something that we are actually experiencing in Pará through the Green Municipalities Program (PMV), an initiative launched by the state Government in March 2011. The program is operated based on pacts involving rural producers, and so- cial and environmental organizations in partnership with the local and state governments. The work agenda encompasses the process for environmental regularization through the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and control of deforestation. And it is innovative in considering that producers who do not deforest and are in the process of environmental regularization will enjoy incentives such as access to credit, consumer markets and the possibility of removing their properties from embargo. Additionally, actions for land title regularization are now considered a priority. At the state level, the Green Municipalities Program innovates significantly in the way it acts, through a steering committee made up of rural producers and agriculture federation, industry federation, municipalities, social organizations, NGOs, public prosecution service and participation by federal agencies. This is recognition that the sustainable development agenda is an issue that interests all sectors and not only the government. The results and challenges faced by the Green Municipalities Program in 2011 and 2012 have been summarized in this activity report, presents major advances such as the reduction of deforestation, a significant increase in the Rural Environ- mental Registry, improvement in agriculture and ranching productivity and the expansion of reforestation. The report also highlights very positive achievements in terms of local pacts for reducing deforestation and promoting a more sustain- able rural economy. Above all, the Program presents the notable action of part- nerships, dialogue and the political pact for finding real solutions for the complex and multifaceted problems