The 13th OECD Rural Development Conference was held in Cavan, Ireland on 28-30 September 2022 under the theme "Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving Rural Places". These are the presentations from the Conference parallel session "The Rural Agenda for Climate Action: Leveraging Climate and Circular BioEconomy Opportunities in Rural Areas". For more information visit https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/.

1. The Rural Agenda for Climate Action:
Leveraging Climate and Circular Bio-Economy
Opportunities in Rural Areas - Sep 28, 2022
Maria Beatriz Bley-Costa
Green Rio CEO

2. 2012
2015

4. Brazil is among the most
biodiverse nations in the world:
• An estimated 20 percent of the
Earth’s biodiversity is found in
Brazil.
• Brazil is home to at least
103,870 animal species and
between 43,000 and 49,000
plant species – not to mention
microorganisms,
algae and several biological
groups
never before studied
.

7. Adrian Rodriguez,
Chief, Agricultural
Development and Biodiversity
Unit at ECLAC

8. Green Rio 2017 Green Rio 2018
Green Rio 2019
Announcement of the selected projects
in the Joint-Call Brazilian-German
Cooperation in Bioeconomy
Green Rio Online 2020
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Since 2017 the German Brazilian Bioeconomy Workshop
takes place in Green Rio
Green Rio 2021
German-Brazilian Initiative
Cooperation for
Agribusiness and
Innovation - 2016

9. Traditional Knowledge & Research and Innovation

10. Data source: IBGE
Image: Google
4,438 BRAZILIAN AMAZON LOCALITIES
Rural settlement
Village
City
Indian village
Settlement

12. 1st Brazilian Government program of
BIOECONOMY with focus in structuring
of systems productive with based on
usage sustainable of biodiversity and of
extractivism.
Brazil Bioeconomy
Program
Sociobiodiversity
(FAMILY
AGRICULTURE,
PEOPLE AND
COMMUNITIES
TRADITIONAL,
SMALL AND
AVERAGE
FARMERS
In the last 10 years, Brazilian
non-timber forest production
has been increasing every year.
Task Force
“Unlocking
the
Bioeconomy
and Non-
Timber
Forest
Products”

14. • FOOD SECURITY AT THE TOP
OF THE GLOBAL AGENDA
• • AGRICULTURE AS AN
INSTRUMENT FOR PEACE
• • THE AMERICAS AS A
GUARANTOR OF
FOOD/NUTRITIONAL SECURITY
AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Fernando Henrique Kohlmann Schwanke
IICA Project Director

16. It is estimated
that India, with
1 billion and
300 million
inhabitants, is
expected to
grow by
8.5% in 2022
CEBR calculates
that China, the
most populous
country in the
world, with
almost 1.44
billion inhabitants
in 2020 (more
than 18% of the
world population)
is expected to
grow annually by
about 5.7% until
2025

17. 90% of global warming is taking place in the ocean
2021 was the hottest year on record
The amount of thermal energy that the ocean has absorbed
in the last 6 decades is 8 times greater than what we
humans use in this period

18. Convergence of the different
public policy to align the Circular
Economy with the Blue Economy.
Open innovation project for the development of the
Blue Economy
First BlueTech Acceleration
Program in Latin America

19. Development Bank mulls forest
concessions based on carbon credits
Model requires regulatory overhaul to be feasible
The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has
started studies to enable forest concessions based
on the sale of carbon credits.
Installation of a platform/exchange for
sustainable assets in Rio de Janeiro, aiming
to provide a trading infrastructure that
supports a high volume of operations with
sustainable carbon assets;
Biodiversity. • Circular Economy
OPPORTUNITIES
Global decarbonization needs
Possibility of international compensation
(Paris Agreement)

20. MOMENTUM
Momentum, product of the mass of a particle and its
velocity. Momentum is a vector quantity; i.e., it has both
magnitude and direction.
When the momentum is produced and must be
immediately taken advantage of when it is in action

21. NOW
IS THE RURAL-CLIMATE MOMENTUM
Thank you!
Maria Beatriz Bley-Costa
Green Rio/Green Latin America CEO
bia@greenrio.com.br