ACTO‘s Executive Director highlighted the importance of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as the role that the Amazon plays in the global climate balance. The Amazon is the key in international debates on Climate Change. At the time, De las Casas presented the Green Prize of the Americas to Professor Therése Hofmann Gatti.
Also, at the opening ceremony, the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, Herman Benjamim, the Ambassador of Canada, Riccardo Savone, the Ambassador of El Salvador, Diana Vanegas, and the State Secretary for the Environment of Amazonas, Antonio Ademir Stroski and the Deputy Secretary of Environment of Minas Gerais, Germano Vieira were present.
During these two days, the Greenmeeting aims to be a bank of ideas that can generate important proposals and information that contribute to the development of sustainable, environmental and economic companies, characterizing itself as a startup of acceleration of innovative initiatives, including the techniques related to climate change, water and solar energy.
