BVRio has today, as part of a group of voluntary standard setters under the PREVENT Waste Alliance and with support from the ValuCred consortium, released a joint statement welcoming the resolution ‘End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument’ adopted at the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in Nairobi.
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BVRio’s project in partnership with the Italian social enterprise Ogyre featured on the cover of O Globo, a mainstream newspaper in Brazil, over the weekend. The reporter Ludmilla Lima went to meet the fishers, who are now earning a salary collecting waste from Guanabara Bay through the project, after seeing the fish almost disappear in less than two decades from their coastline very much in part because of pollution.
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O time de ação circular da BVRio expandiu este mês com a adição de dois novos membros, que vem somar ao desenvolvimento de serviços tanto para produtores que buscam maneiras de cumprir suas metas de EPR e CSER, quanto para iniciativas locais de gestão de resíduos.
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BVRio’s circular action team has expanded this month with the addition of two new members of staff, who will increase capacity and help further develop services for both producers looking for ways to meet EPR and CSER commitments and local waste management initiatives.
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Between 23 May and 2 June, the Forest Code Observatory (OCF), of which BVRio is a member, is promoting ‘Forest Code +10’, a week of debates to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the law that protects native vegetation in Brazil, the ‘New Forest Code’. The event opens on 23 May with a workshop aimed at journalists, ‘(Un)covering the Forest Code’, organised by BVRio.
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After a successful trial, the second phase of our project in partnership with Italian social enterprise, Ogyre, to manage the removal of solid waste from Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, by local fishers, is now underway.
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BVRio in partnership with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) secured the inclusion of a trophy made from sustainable and certified wood in one of Brazil’s biggest regional football championships, the Nordeste Cup 2022.
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BVRio has again been designated as the executing partner for the local work of the Climate Governance for Rondônia project, formally appointed by the State Government of Rondônia in a letter sent to the executive secretariat of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF). After successfully concluding the first phase, carried out between 2018 and 2020, the second phase of the project is to develop public agendas and participatory instruments for state climate governance.
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BVRio’s Director of Forestry and Public Policy, Beto Mesquita, was at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force), on March 18, in Manaus, and made contributions to the discussions related to the voluntary carbon markets.
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BVRio was in Mexico last month to support a circular economy network registered in the Hub’s project directory, accompanying the proceedings of SGS Audit to the project coordinated by the NGO Entreamigos, under the umbrella of ‘Bahia Circular – Community plastics recycling in Mexico’.
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