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17/08/22

Director-president of IBRAM wants the joint participation of the forces of society, business and the public sector to define consistent proposals for the region.

The CEO of the Brazilian Mining Institute (IBRAM), Raul Jungmann, proposed a solid alliance between the forces of society, business and the public sector to formulate, urgently, “a sustainable development project for the Amazon. Brazil does not know what to do with the Amazon. If the level of poverty and violence continues there, there will be no one to take care of this situation. There are 25 million people inhabiting that territory and it is necessary to provide opportunities for everyone to act regularly and not be victims of those who practice illegal actions”, he said, referring to illegal mining and associated crimes.

He participated in the opening, alongside Celso Lafer – former chancellor and chairman of the Board of Trustees of FFHC – and also as moderator of one of the panels of the webinar “Mining in the Amazon: Challenges of Sustainable Development”, organized by IBRAM and by the Fernando Henrique Foundation Cardoso (FFHC), at the foundation’s headquarters in São Paulo. Representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the Escolhas Institute, the National Mining Agency (ANM), the FFHC, the Concertação pela Amazônia movement, the MapBiomas project, among other participants in the webinar, also followed the line of thought of Raul Jungmann and highlighted the importance of joining efforts in favor of a specific policy to develop the Amazon.

Celso Lafer, president of the Board of Trustees of FFHC and Raul Jungmann, CEO of IBRAM – credit: disclosure

Industrial mining, according to IBRAM, is one of the viable options for fostering socioeconomic and environmental development in the Amazon. The same was highlighted by the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho, and by representatives of ANM, MapBiomas and MME, among others. To corroborate this position, the mining companies Vale and Alcoa presented various data and arguments to demonstrate that industrial mining can be carried out in a sustainable way, in harmony with the environment, the population and traditional peoples, such as indigenous peoples. Hugo Barreto, Director of Global Social Investment at Vale and CEO of Fundação Vale and Instituto Cultural Vale, and Otávio Carvalheira, President of Alcoa in Brazil and Vice President of Brazil & Africa Operations, spoke on the topic throughout the webinar.

Watch the webinar recording by clicking this link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CF6YiyRoEw