Sunday, February 10, 2008

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Hooray - we have a Ministry for the Environment!

as Peru's President Alan Garcia announced on 20.12.2007, that the government would set up an environment ministry, I'm dancing for joy hopped around the apartment and found that for all environmentalists, worried industry critic and climate guard a super Christmas present! As long as we had exactly advocates argued, fought and fought ... My mailbox was overflowing from my enthusiastic messages from the government likes to call "Ökoterroristen vilified friends and colleagues.

Meanwhile, the euphoria has given way to broader disillusionment. We now know that is that not really Alan García has in mind, the to protect the environment, but only do enough of a clause wants, which is formulated in the appendix of the extensive free trade agreement with the U.S.. One may think of the Free Trade Agreement, what you want, but to the Peruvian environment, it could mean, with all its conditions in some respects, a real step forward ... if they ever were a political will to fill these requirements may help with content. But there is seemingly nothing that is Alan Garcia also ...

The concept for the creation of the Ministry of Environment is now to be crushed in ridiculous 20 days from the floor, under the consistent failure to follow already on the table proposals and recommendations. The working group is convened to that characterized primarily by the fact that most members are loyal Apristas, that is, the APRA, the party members of the president. The least bring a sound technical expertise. The leader of the group are said to that he had parked his once very strong ecological awareness, provide for various mining companies him well-paid jobs and him with money for his television show (and presumably not just for that) provide ...

any case, has already announced that the most critical from an environmental perspective issues should not be handled by the Environment Ministry said it was the environmental supervision in the whole forest area before the creation of the Ministry just once resettled in the Ministry of Agriculture.

for fishing should be a separate institution responsible and the environmental aspects of mining remain conflictive in the mining ministry, where they also were located far (and deliberately fell under the table ...).

Then why all the hubbub, one wonders?
Why all the expenses, a bureaucratic apparatus that has no real powers?
are to maintain the appearance and investment continue to drive? In order to do
the fashion theme "environment" enough, without really changing what?
to prove that Peru is a modern country, with the deal with its resources responsibly?

I fear that my colleagues and I are still quite a while in the drawer of the "Ökoterroristen" get stuck ....

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