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Eco-Innovation 21 The local / global
imperative Track S 5 Tuesday June 21 
International Policies and Tools Are We
Different?
Dra. Silvia C. Nonna Advisor to the Secretary of
Environment and Sustainable Development
MINISTERIO DE SALUD Y AMBIENTE SECRETARIA DE
AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE ARGENTINA
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The Latin American and the Caribbean region
extends over a little more than 2.000 million
hectares in the earths surface. It is the
region with the greatest diversity of species in
the world, since there you can find most of the
existing biomes in the planet.
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Developing Countries Environmental
Institutionalism
1972. Declaration UN Conference on the Human
Environment
Need to adopt large scale measures on the
environment
Under secretariats
70s. Sectoral Organisms
Vice Ministries
80s. Economic Crisis
Environmental Institutionalism Latin America and
the Caribbean
1992. Río Earth Summit

• High Environmental Authorities
• New Cooperation Mechanisms

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Evolution of Regulatory Frameworks

• Constitutions ? Basis
• Legislative Progress ? General Laws Frames
• Territorial Planning
• EIA
• Standards for pollution control
• Economic Instruments
• Citizen participation Mechanisms
• Civil, administrative and criminal
  responsibilities

BUT ...

• Lack of complementary rules to effectively
  implement the laws
• Lack of Enforcement
• Lack of Resources for the administrative
  application
• Obstacles for Judicial application

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Integrated participation
Private Sector
NGOs
Civil Society
Active participation
Fruitful Experiences

• Business Sector
• Growing integration of sustainability
• issues into business management
• Councils for SD
• National Clean Production Centers

NET WORKS of ACTORS
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Regional Environmental Agenda
Design of INSTRUMENTS to define
strategic PRIORITIES in order to draw up
COMMON ENVIRONMENTAL
AGENDA
INITIATIVE of LATIN AMERICA and THE CARIBBEAN
for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVES
Consolidating the efforts of Latin America and
the Caribbean, at the different levels of
Government and the civil society, in order to
overcome obstacles in the implementation of
programs and projects of interest to the region
Developing actions in selected areas that,
based on the political will of States, stimulate
the active participation of the private
sector and of civil society entities in order to
promote investments that may generate
sustainable productive activities and, at the
same time, allow for the conservation and
sustainable use of environmental goods and
services which are essential for life. Promoting
the implementation of sustainable development
models, based on ethical grounds, which are
competitive and supported by public policies
designed to promote science and technology,
financing, human resources training,
institutional development, assessment of
environmental goods and services, and
development of sustainability indicators fitted
to the social, economic, environmental, and
political conditions of each country or to the
needs of sub-regional groups of countries
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GEO Reports
Integrated Environmental Assessments ?Regional
? Sub regional ? National ? Municipal
Same METHODOLOGY with an harmonized conceptual
FRAMEWORK
   - What is happening to the environment?
State - Why is it happening?
Pressure  - What is the impact?
Impact  - What action is being taken on
environmental policies? Response  - What will
happen if we do not take action now?
Scenarios  -    What can we do to reverse the
present situation? Proposals
Q U E S T I O N S
Continuous process of environment assessment
which enables to understand the inter-relations
among the different sectors of the economy, the
society and the environment in order to face the
challenges of preserving natural resources and
use them in a sustainable way, and improving the
quality of human life.
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ARGENTINA
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
National Environmental Agenda for SUSTAINABLE DEVE
LOPMENT
Planification
Participation
Information
Economic Growth
Environmental Quality
Social Development
Preserve and Promote an Environmental Sound Use
of Natural Resources
Promote Clean Production and Sustainable
Consumption
Strengthen Institutions and Enforce Environmental
Regulations
Include Environmental Dimension in Micro and
Macro Economic Scopes
MINISTERIO DE SALUD Y AMBIENTE SECRETARIA DE
AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE
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New Environmental Institutional Legal Framework
ARGENTINA
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION Articule 41 All the
habitants have the right to enjoy of a balanced
and healthy environment, apt to human development
and productive activities that satisfy the
current needs without compromising the future
generation ones, and have the duty to keep it.
The environmental damage will basically carry out
the duty to compensate according to law. The
authorities will provide to the protection of
this right, to the rational use of natural
resources, to the preservation of the natural and
cultural inheritance, of the biological diversity
and will provide to the environmental information
and education. It corresponds to the Nation to
enact rules that contain minimum requirements of
protection and the complementary ones must be
prescribed by the provinces without the
jurisdiction of the latter being altered by the
former. The entrance to national territory of
hazardous and radioactive waste is forbidden.

• Law 25.612. 29/7/02. MMPP for Integrated
  Management of Industrial Waste and Service
  Activities
• Law 25.670. 19/11/02. MMPP for the Management
  and Disposal of PCBs.
• Law 25.675. 28/11/02. MMPP for the Adequate and
  Sustainable Management of the Environment.
• Law 25.688. 30/1/03. Water Environmental
  Management Regime
• Law 25.831. 7/1/04. Environmental Public
  Information
• Law 25.916. 7/9/04. Integrated Management of
  Household Waste.

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA
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ARGENTINA
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA

• New strategic lines / programmes
• Territorial Environmental Planning
• Health and Environment
• Trade and Environment
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Sustainable Mining
• Social Programme on Forest
• National Strategy on Urban Solid Waste Management
• National Information System

• New Divisions / Departments
• Climate Change Division
• Clean Production and Sustainable Consumption
  Division
• Environmental Research and Development Division
• Coordinating Division of the Sustainable
  Indicator System
• Coordinating Division of International Projects
  and Programs
• Sustainable Energy Development Division
• Environmental Water Management Division

SECRETARIA DE AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO
SUSTENTABLE Argentina
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Developing / Developed
Diagnosis GEOs
Problems own common
to region
Recommendations Action plans
Models
YES
Are We Different ?
NO
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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ARGENTINA