During the session on “Financing Amazon’s transition to a sustainable bioeconomy” under the World Economic Forum, the Secretary-General of ACTO, Alexandra Moreira, assured that the biodiversity potential of the Amazon is one of the foremost competitiveness differentials in the Amazonian countries and can become the catalyst for the region’s integral development through the bioeconomy.
Moreover, she complemented saying that the bioeconomy should be developed within an inter-scientific dialogue, combining high innovation and technology of modern science with traditional, community and local knowledge. “Its implementation will allow the equitable and inclusive industrialization and transformation of our biodiversity unique products, articulating small, medium, and large-scale initiatives, and stimulating sustainable entrepreneurship”.
She explained that “As catalyst for the economy generation in the local, regional and international spheres, economic independence of the primary sectors producing raw materials can be achieved that are irreversibly affecting many of our ecosystems and particularly the Amazonian population ”.
Moreira also pointed out the negotiating process of the Regional Biodiversity Program among the eight Member Countries. The project’s central theme is bioeconomy promotion in its broadest concept.
Moreover, she reported that ACTO has been working with cooperators and strategic partners in the convergence of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and the Leticia Pact, and in 1978 the Treaty had envisioned this urgency to develop practical actions in issues such as biodiversity to reduce existing asymmetries and improve living conditions in the Amazon.
The session “Financing the Amazon’s transition to sustainable bioeconomy” that took place on January 27, was also attended by the President of Colombia Iván Duque, the Vice President of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão, the President of the IDB, Mauricio Claver-Carone and other important representatives of the world bioeconomic scenario. The moderation of the event was conducted by the leader of the World Economic Forum for Latin America, Marisol Barillas.
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