Business CVG and prepare projects for UN meeting on Kyoto Protocol
Editorial Writer
Saturday, November 13, 2010
.- In Ciudad Guayana extraordinary meeting of the Corporate Environment,
representatives of the Corporación Venezolana de Guayana and the basic
industries analyzed CVG projects delivered to the Ministry of Basic Industries
and Mining (MIBAM) and Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries to be
raised before the Committee on Climate Change under the United Nations
Convention on Climate Change (COP 16) and the Kyoto Protocol Implementation.
The Commission, together with the Ministry of Popular Power for the Environment
and Foreign Affairs, makes the country's proposal that the President of the
Republic, Hugo Chávez, will present at the event to be held next November 26,
2010 in Cancun. CVG projects and enterprises, are designed to measure emissions
of greenhouse gases (GHGs) resulting from production processes and to reduce
their emissions.

José Luis Colmenares, Vice President, Industrial Development Corporation, set up
the working day in which they discussed and reviewed 12 proposals for
Headquarters CVG, CVG Sidor, CVG Bauxilum Alucasa CVG, CVG Minerven, CVG and CVG
Venalum Ferrominera Orinoco.

Colmenares said that one of the main benefits for Guyana and the country with
the approval of projects, obtaining funding for the development and
implementation of them. He added that the projects analyzed are related to the
industrial area, improvement and modernization of environmental monitoring, and
two corresponding to carbon sequestration by forest plantation development.

Briceño Cruz, General Manager of Technological Adaptation, said the meeting also
allowed the analysis and exchange of information aimed at improving the
production processes of enterprises and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Projects

CVG projects were presented by Head Eduardo Hernandez of the Forestry
Development Division, who informed the Committee that the Corporation proposes
to develop 3 000 hectares of forest plantations of Natural Rubber in Bolivar
state, specifically in the area Maripa, which generate social, economic and
environmental, among which carbon sequestration (CO2).

The specialist explained that CO2 sequestration is part of the natural process
of the plant to develop their tissues and parts. The gas remains sequestered for
30 years, estimated life time of planting, which can be extended indefinitely
depending on the use made of wood.

"This wood once it meets the life cycle of production of latex, can be used for
industrial purposes, such as the development of concrete panels, which extend to
60 years, carbon sequestration," Hernandez said.

He added that with this method, rather than reducing emissions to the
environment, reduces the levels of atmospheric carbon, since it contains the gas
that is already in the environment, why this is one of the strategies used in
the world.

In this sense, it is important to note that the Corporation already has
eucalyptus plantations in the municipality Casacoima Delta Amacuro state,
through which environmental benefits are obtained through the provision of green
sticks to the basic industries, reducing pressure on the natural forest and at
the same time, complying with the so-called carbon cycle.

What is the Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is the only international mechanism capable of addressing the
serious problem of climate change. Governments agreed in 1997 the Kyoto Protocol
of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN (UNFCCC). The agreement came
into force on February 16, 2005, just after the 55 nations that accounted for
55% of emissions of greenhouse gases have ratified it. Currently 175 countries
have ratified it, although there are absences as the U.S. or Australia.


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