IBGE holds event to disseminate environmental information

Section: IBGE

May 30, 2008 10h00 AM | Last Updated: October 23, 2019 02h50 PM

As part of the celebration of the World Environment Day (June 05th), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IIBGE) will hold, from Monday to Wednesday next week (June 2, 3 and 4), an Environment Expo.

As part of the celebration of the World Environment Day (June 05^th), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IIBGE) will hold, from Monday to Wednesday next week (June 2, 3 and 4), an Environment Expo. The objective of this event is to disseminate environmental data produced or compiled by the Institute, in order to provide elements to the formulation of public policies and measures concerning the territory and the environment, as well as to stimulate and reinforce the environmental conscience of society as a whole, besides creating measures directed to environmental protection and education.

During the event there will be the release of several new products, exhibitions of maps, posters and thematic photographs, besides presentations and discussions about the main current studies and works in the environmental field.

The event, which will take place at IBGE’s Center for Information Documentation and Dissemination (CDDI), located at 706, Gal Canabarro Street, in Rio de Janeiro, is free and open to the public.

IBGE has a significant amount of relevant information to the management of the territory and the evaluation of environmental quality, and it has been enriched throughout the years. Besides producing basic data, the institute also compiles, organizes and releases information concerning the environment produced by other public and private institutions.

Among the highlights of the Environmental Expo of IBGE are the releases of Indicators of Sustainable Development 2008 (IDS 2008), of the Map of Insects and Other Endangered Land Invertebrates, of an Estimate of the Industrial Air Pollution Potential of the State of Rio de Janeiro and of a Database about Vegetation in the Legal Amazon. There is also a web system for the exchange of scientific information about botanic and zoological collections.

The detailed program of the expo can be seen below:

IBGE’s Environment Expo

06/02/2008 – Monday
2h30 - 3h30 PM	Opening Session Eduardo Pereira Nunes – President of IBGE Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes – IBGE’s Geosciences Director Representatives of the Ministry of the Environment and of Science and Technology of the Environment Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro
3h30 - 4h30 PM	Press Releases: Legal Amazon vegetation with an Associate Database Ricardo Forin Lisboa Braga - IBGE/DGC/Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Map of Endangered Fauna – Insects and Other Land Invertebrates Licia Leone Couto - IBGE/DGC/ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies
4h30 -6h00 PM	Opening Cocktail

06/03/2008 – Tuesday
09h00 - 09h30 AM	Cartographic Bases as a Support to Environmental Management – Cartographic Base of Janeiro, a Project in Partnership with SEA/RJ Moema José de Carvalho Augusto – IBGE/DGC/Cartography Department
09h30 -10h00 AM	Effects of the Change of the Geodetic Reference System in Brazil on the Production of Information about Natural Resources: the REBIO Union Case Paulo Roberto Alves - IBGE/DGC/ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies
10h00 -10h30 AM	Intra-Urban Typology of Brazilian Agglomerations Maria Monica Vieira Caetano ONeill- IBGE/DGC/ Geography Department
10h30 -10h40 AM	Coffee-break
10h40 -12h30 PM	Press Releases: Pilot Plan of the Application of the IPPS Methodology in the State of Rio de Janeiro – An Estimate of the Industrial Air Pollution Potential Judicael Clevelario Junior and Rosane de Andrade Memoria Moreno - IBGE/DGC/ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Scientific Collections – Structuring of the IBGE Database, Focused on the Structure Developed for the IBGE Herbarium – Web System Nadir Vieira Costa Paixao – IBGE/ Data Processing Directorate Carlos Alberto Figueiredo Beda –DBA/IBGE Consultant
12h30 -14h00 PM	Coffee-break
14:00 -14:30 PM	Systematization of Natural Resources Information, Hydric Resources , Fauna and Flora and Land Use Celso José Monteiro Filho and Eloísa Domingues – IBGE/DGC/ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies
14:30 -15:00 PM	National Infrastructure of Spatial Data Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes – IBGE/ Geosciences Department - DGC
15:00 -15:30 PM	ALOS Images as Supporting Elements to Environmental Management Leonardo Barbosa Gomes - IBGE/DGC/Information Dissemination Management
15:30 -15:50 PM	Coffee-break
15:50 -16:20 PM	Permanent Monitoring at Sea Level Roberto Teixeira Luz - IBGE/DGC/ Geodetics Department
16:20 16:50 PM	Amazon Cartographic Base – MMA Project 1:100.000 Roberto Ricardo Vizentin – MMA/Mining and Quarrying and Sustainable Rural Development Secretariat - SEDR
16:50 -17:20 PM	Economic Ecologic Zoning - ZEE – The Participation of IBGE in the project conducted by the Ministry of the, through the ZEE Brazil Consortium Marcos Estevam Dell Prette – MMA/ ZEE BRAZIL CONSORTIUM

06/04/2008 – Wednesday

10:00 - 12h00 AM

Press Release:

Indicators of Sustainable development 2008 – IDS 2008

Wadih João Scandar Neto - IBGE/ Geosciences Directorate

Denise Maria Penna Kronemberger – IBGE/Geography Department

Judicael Clevelario Junior – IBGE/ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies

12:00 - 12:30 PM