Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável – state-wide sustainability

Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável (Our Sustainable Paraná Alliance) is an ambitious and leading new model for a coordinated cross-sectoral statewide approach to sustainability.

The Alliance is being built from a solid base of collective assets. Leaders from the private sector, government and civil society in the Brasilian State of Paraná have committed to work on a regional and city-wide level to build a state which is sustainable across all domains – ecological, economic, political and cultural.

The establishment and development of the Alliance is being coordinated by a recently formed Regional Secretariat of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme. The Secretariat was formalised in May 2012.

Collaboration of Government, Private Sector and Civil Society

Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável will grow to include many groups from across the government, business and civil society sectors in Paranà. The number of individual Global Compact member cities will also grow with the Alliance.

A Regional Secretariat of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme of Paranà has been formed to establish, develop and expand Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável. Its members are:

Government

• The State Government of Paranà - represented by the Secretary of Urban Development, Cezar Silvestri and  Adriane Nunes Ferreira
• Associação dos Municípios do Paraná (Association of the Municipalities of Paraná) – represented by  Gabriel Jorge Samaha / Aurélio Munhoz
• Cohapar – Companhia de Habitação do Paraná  (Housing Company of Paraná) – represented by President, Mounir Chaowiche/ Orlando Agulham Jr
•  Prefeitura Municipal de Campo Mourão (City Hall of Campo Mourão), represented by  Lidia Tomoco Miyagui Mizote

•  COPEL – Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Energy Utility Company of Paraná) - represented by Gilberto  Mendes Fernandes
• Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Paraná (Industries Federation of Paraná State) – represented by  Edson Campagnolo
• Federação das Associações Comerciais do Paraná (Federation of Comercial Associations of Paraná) – represented by  Yvy Karla B. Abbade
• ISAE/FGV (Getulio Vargas Foundation / Superior Institute of Corporations Management) – represented by  Norman de Paula Arruda Filho
• ITAIPU Binacional – represented by General Brazilian Director, Jorge Miguel Samek

• Ação Social do Paraná  Social Action of Paraná (Caritas), represented by President, Padre José Aparecido Pinto
• Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Paraná - CREA-PR (Regional Council of Engineering and Agronomics of Paraná) –  represented by President Joel Krüger
• Instituto Arayara de Educação para a Sustentabilidade (Arayara Institute of Education for Sustainability) – represented by  André Bongestabs / Luciano Planca

Eduardo Manoel Araujo is the In Country Convenor of the Paranà UNGCCP Regional Secretariat.

Rio+20 Launch of Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável

Governador of Paranà, Carlos Alberto ‘Beto’ Richa presented Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustentável at the high level closing of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum on June 18, 2012. He outlined a series of UN Commitments as the first stage of the Alliance’s actions to build sustainability across the State (see below).

See the Governor’s Commitment Declaration, delivered on behalf of the Nosso Paranà Sustantavel Aliança:

• Portugese original- Governador discurso para a rio+ 20
• English translation – Governor Parana speech Rio+20

There was also a full hour and a half session of the Rio+20 Urbanisation and Cities track dedicated to the launch of Aliança Nosso Paraná Sustanável. Presentations were delivered by:

• Professor Paul James (Director, Global Cities Research Institute/Global Compact Cities Programme)
• Eduardo Manoel Araujo (In Country Convenor, Regional Secretariat, Global Compact Cities Programme)
• Mounir Chaowiche (President, Housing Company of Paraná, also representing the State Governor)
• Jorge Miguel Samek (General Brazilian Director, ITAIPU Binacional)
• Joel Krüger (President, Council of Engineers of Paraná-CREA-PR)
• Father José Aparecido Pinto (President, Social Action of Paraná)
• Lidia Mizote (In Country Convenor, Local Secretariat, Global Compact Cities Programme, Campo Mourão)

Media Coverage

First Actions – UN Commitments