During the last day of the seminar Road to Río+20, the non-governmental organizations were in charge of presenting what they expect Río+20 will bring and how they are currently working to make progress in the «sustainable development.»
The Executive Director of the Argentine Institute of Corporate Social Responsibility (IARSE), Luis Ulla, assured that their mission is to «promote the ideas of the corporate social responsibility, because we strongly believe that is going to be difficult to find a sustainable development in Argentina and the region without a commitment of the private sector with a sustainable administration.»
Ulla stated that the «divorce of the economy and the planet has come to an end,» referring to the new concept of «green economy.» He affirmed that the traditional model of the economy does not fit the reality, because this new concept is based in the protection of the planet and «the challenge of eradicating poverty.»
«The green economy means a friendly relationship between the productive process made by the society and the natural process that has to coexist with them,» he continued, «this economy has to be inclusive in order to find the balance between the financial, social, human and environmental capital and reach equity.»
Brazilian Vitae Civilis Institute’s Foreign Process Advisor Pedro Telles presented the controversy of this «green economy» by stating that there is a lack of information or exact definition of this concept «that generates distrust and prejudice.» He also mentioned the Greenwashing, which means that the companies use the concept of sustainability in their products without being sustainable at all.
Telles added that another conflict with this concept is that «people talk about the eradication of poverty, but speak just a little about inequality, so changing the structure is not enough.»
The Road to Río+20 has prepared the people for what is going to come next year at the summit in Río de Janeiro. Presenting its pros and cons to be debated and the concepts yet to be defined in order to apply them in the short-term and leave the planet in better conditions for the next generations.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald