Four notices from the Environmental Fund, which reinforce with 1,7 million euros the financing in two strategic areas, environmental awareness and the conservation of nature and biodiversity, will be published tomorrow, May 15th, announced the Ministry of Environment and of Climate Action.
The Environmental Fund thus continues to support entities, activities and projects that pursue the goals of sustainable development, contributing to the fulfillment of national and international goals in environmental policy and climate action.
For this year, the National Strategy for Environmental Education established three essential pillars – decarbonizing society; make the economy circular; enhance the territory – under which three notices were drawn. With funding of 1,5 million euros, they intend to bring about behavioral changes in society to ensure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations.
The notice “Supporting a new environmental culture, within the scope of the National Strategy for Environmental Education 2020 – Quality health and sustainable cities and communities” fits into the pillars of the decarbonization of society and the enhancement of the territory, intending to contribute to the SDGs “Health of quality” and “Sustainable cities and communities”;
“Supporting a new environmental culture, within the scope of the National Strategy for Environmental Education 2020 – Sustainable production and consumption” is the warning designed within the scope of the circular economy and intends to contribute to the SDG “Sustainable production and consumption”;
“Supporting a new environmental culture, within the scope of the National Strategy for Environmental Education 2020 – Protecting terrestrial life” is framed in the valorization of the territory, intending to contribute to the SDG “Protecting terrestrial life”.
In terms of nature and biodiversity conservation, the Environmental Fund reinforces its commitment to the protection and improvement of national freshwater ecosystems, publishing the notice “Nature and Biodiversity Conservation – Projects to combat invasive aquatic exotic species (water hyacinths). -water)”, with a budget of 200 thousand euros.
The latter intends to support projects aimed at controlling, containing or eradicating the invasive exotic species of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), in association or not with other exotic aquatic invasive species, the pine weeds (Myriophyllum aquaticum, M. brasiliensis and M. heterophyllum), the African Elodea (Lagarosiphon Major) and the azole (Azolla filiculoides), at the scale of the basin or sub-basin.
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