Semas participates in the 2nd Regional Seminar on Environmental Law focusing on new economies and sustainability
The meeting brings together experts, authorities, and members of the Brazilian Union of Environmental Advocacy (UBAA) to discuss the main challenges and opportunities of the climate agenda leading up to COP30
On this Thursday (28), the Environmental Training and Education Center of the Secretary of Environment, Climate and Sustainability (Semas), in Belém, hosted the 2nd Regional Seminar on Environmental Law – North Region, which brought together experts, authorities, and members of the Brazilian Union of Environmental Advocacy (UBAA) to discuss the main challenges and opportunities of the climate agenda leading up to COP30.
The opening panel featured the participation of the Secretary of Semas, Raul Protázio Romão; lawyer and professor Talden Farias, vice-president of UBAA; and lawyer Cristiane Jaccoud, secretary-general of the entity.
In his speech, Secretary Raul emphasized the strategic importance of the State in the national and international debate on sustainability, highlighting the need to prepare professionals to work in new economies.
“Here in the Amazon, we are at the center of this national debate on sustainability and new economies. It is essential to have this space of proximity with the legal community and the academic community in Pará. We need to understand that new economies stem from the climate agenda and represent not only an environmental change but also an economic and geopolitical one,” he stated.
The secretary-general of UBAA, Cristiane Jaccoud, highlighted that the seminar comes at a decisive moment, as Pará consolidates itself as a protagonist in the international environmental agenda on the eve of COP30. According to her, the partnership with Semas was fundamental for the realization of the event.
“Our proposal is to bring a discussion from the perspective of advocacy, at a time when Brazil and the world are undergoing a change in economic and energy paradigms. It is essential that we are in dialogue with environmental agencies to create regulatory security and strengthen this environment of new practices and new economies,” she stated.
Cristiane also emphasized that the regional seminars of UBAA play a role in deepening the debate on local peculiarities:
For two days, the Seminar brings together representatives of UBAA from all over Brazil to discuss topics such as licensing and green economy, land regularization, environmental impacts in the Amazon, climate litigation, and the main legal and environmental challenges in the context of COP30.
