Workgroups
Bioeconomy
Objective: The Bioeconomy Working Group aims to promote collective, participatory and inclusive actions in favor of the Amazon bioeconomy, based on affinities and synergies around areas of interest, with a focus on the ecosystem of sustainable businesses, investments and production of knowledge linked to the sociobiodiversity of the region. Act as a reference, creating connections in order to aggregate forces between institutions and projects, catalyzing agendas and enhancing solutions that accelerate the transition and advancement of sustainable development in the Amazon.
Education
Objective: The Education Working Group has three main focuses for action in 2023: a) to consolidate the initiative Uma Concertação pela Amazônia as a knowledge hub on education in the Legal Amazon territory, through the production of articles and reports of experiences, curation of content on the subject and survey of good practices in the territory; b) to reflect and build processes aimed at rural education modalities, indigenous school education and quilombola school education; c) to think about productions and processes for developing teaching and pedagogical materials that are based on collaboration between the actors in the ecosystem and the connection with the training of educators. Across all these focuses, inclusive education is a premise for promoting the integral development of all students.
Youth
Objectives: The Youth Working Group (GT) of the Concertação aims to listen to, include and represent the diverse voices of the young population of the Amazon region. Brazilian youth, made up of almost 50 million citizens between the ages of 15 and 29 – approximately 7.7 million of whom live in the Legal Amazon – play a fundamental role in discussions related to the present and future of the region, considering the demographic boom that the region is experiencing and that is expected to grow in the coming years, as indicated by data from Amazônia 2030. In this sense, the Youth Working Group is a space for articulation and empowerment of the diverse Amazonian youth, with the capacity to cover the entire territory. The group acts in a comprehensive, consultative and constructive manner in all areas of the initiative’s activity, seeking to contribute significantly to the construction of policies and actions that benefit young people and promote the sustainable development of the Amazon.
Territorial Planning and Land Regularization
Objective: The Territorial Planning and Land Regularization Working Group aims to promote the understanding that territorial planning and land regularization are essential processes for sustainable development and to curb illegal deforestation in the Amazon. To this end, the group aims to qualify the debate on these topics, identifying bottlenecks and potential, in addition to recommendations to overcome land chaos in the region. The group also seeks to bring together the key actors involved in this dynamic, debating, generating and sharing knowledge, as well as articulating the implementation of projects that can contribute to this agenda and help overcome historical barriers that persist to this day.
