What are the main actions of the Positive Agenda relating to the environment?
Regionally, Alcoa is encouraging the maintenance of conservation units, by providing funds from the Agenda via the Program for Supporting Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Amazon, which since 2004 has been collaborating with the setting up of units in the region. The Program is scheduled to last five years and will receive R$ 2 million from partner institutions: Alcoa, Alcoa Foundation and the environmental organization, Conservation International (CI-Brasil). The amount to be invested in this period will be R$ 400,000 a month, half of which will come from the Alcoa Foundation and half from CI-Brasil. The idea is that by 2012 a fund will have been created, worth an estimated R$ 60 million, for protecting the region’s conservation units. Alcoa is also going to invest in the establishment of an environmental conservation unit in the municipality of Juruti itself, via a National System of Conservation Units (SNUC).
