"Last week, the International Intelligence Unit of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/IIU) promoted a seminar to discuss topics related to public policies for sustainable development in the Post-2015 era.

Held in partnership with the Consulate General of Germany, under the coordination of the Director of FGV/NPII, Professor Renato Galvão Flôres Júnior and Vice-Consul Joachim Schemel, the event continues the Center's project to analyze, outline perspectives and encourage dialogue and cooperation in the areas of public policies for sustainable development, initiated with a collaboration between NPII and the ASEAN Foundation, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

These issues have been debated in several international forums linked to the Post-2015 Agenda, coordinated mainly by the Secretary General of the United Nations – as well as the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), which will have its next meetings in Lima, in December this year, and in Paris, in 2015.

The event also featured the presentation of the German policy for changing the energy matrix, illustrating one of the most advanced public decarbonization policies today. The experts also discussed alternatives to reduce climate consequences of international relevance and their applications in the Brazilian context. True to its mission as a think tank, NPII will produce, from this event, a 'Policy Paper' to inform the development and improvement of Brazilian policies for carbon reduction in the post-2015 context.

The event was attended by Gerhard Haase, representative of Wintershall in Brazil; Harald Klein, Consul General of Germany; professor Renato Flôres, director of FGV/IIU; R. Andreas Kraemer, director of the Ecologic Institute, Berlin; Felix Dane, director of the Regional Climate Change, Environment and Energy Security Program in Latin America at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; Sergio Boanada, president of the Brazil-Germany Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rio de Janeiro; Haroldo Mattos de Lemos, president of the Brazil PNUMA Institute; Marina Drummond, specialist in sustainable development at FGV/IIU; Christian Stoffaes, president of the World Council for Sustainable Electrification and FGV representative in France; Luiz Fernando Scheibe, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina; Jürgen Beigel, director of the GIZ Energy Program for Brazil; Aron Belinky, from GVCes FGV/EAESP; Ricardo Baitelo, from the Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaign; and Jorge Chediek, resident coordinator of the United Nations in Brazil"

Article published on the website of the Regional Energy Security and Climate Change Program in Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS EKLA). Read the full article here.