biodiversity position paper (done with charina my partner)

Committee: United Nation Environment Program
Topic: Conserving biodiversity during industrialization
Country: Brazil
Delegate: Charina Betances, Tarchae Campbell



The main goal of United Nations Environment Program is “to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment.” Although this is the main goal, it has not yet been established. Biodiversity exists all around the world and it is the task of every individual of the international community to ensure that biodiversity is conserved. Regardless of the admirable efforts taken by the United Nations to combat this issue, such as the Kyoto protocol, that focuses on climate change, which also helps, conserve biodiversity all around the world.

Brazil believes that eliminating biodiversity is in fact is a problem and needs to be prevented. In order to preserve biodiversity during industrialization, countries should spread awareness through education about how and why we should conserve biodiversity. Brazil cares very much about plants and animals and every member that makes up biodiversity. However Brazil is a developing nation that also looks out for the commonwealth of its people.

In 1996 Brazil launched the National biodiversity Program (PRONABIO). This program established the project on the conservation and sustainable use of the Brazilian diversity (PROBIO). Pro- Biodiversity is a program that invested in 14 projects that aimed to conserve biodiversity in the nation.

Furthermore, Brazil supports the national fund for the environment (FNMA). Brazil also supports the PPG-7 (launched in 1992) Atlantic forest sub-program. This program invested 9.4 million for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the entire Atlantic forest. In August 2007, the Brazilian government created Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBIO)[1], an institute whose main function is to manage the country's federal conservation units.

Brazil is doing its best to conserve biodiversity in the country. We’ve established program that aim towards conserving biodiversity such as the Little Blue Macaw Project. This project focuses on conserving the nearly extinct Spix’s Macaw, a bird found in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil wants to maintain every species that makes up our ecosystem.

Spreading awareness through education remains the apparatus to conversing biodiversity in every nation. Having the government involved in conserving biodiversity will make the country richer and more developed overall. Developing countries need to keep in mind their environment and biodiversity in every decision that the country makes.


[1] http://gobrazil.about.com/od/ecotourismadventure/qt/ibamaweb.htm