Planet Earth International 2009

Sustainabilit
y
Deforestation remains
a major concern
facing the Earth.
grazing. The project is clearly focused on each stage of the project, ﬁ rm support from project is implemented
environmental protection and soil recovery universities and a programme to incorporate • The contribution of a sustainable long-
in degraded areas. technological advances. term activity to the economic and social
The main social and environmental The program has resulted in: development of that area
beneﬁ ts derived from the project are: • Employment generation with an average
• Diminution of soil erosion of 150 full-time jobs and the employment While the international community of
• Generation of sustainable employment in of temporary workers during breeding Earth scientists, politicians, and business
areas of little development stages, intermediate and ﬁ nal planting, leaders must surely applaud Resol’s shining
• Development of local capacities and action and pruning examples of corporate responsibility
between companies and institutions in the • Direct contribution in prevention of forest projects, none of us will have missed the
region ﬁ res, taking advantage of oil industry bleak point mentioned above that, “the
The project consists of planting and know-how most difﬁ cult aspect of this work has been
sustainably maintaining a 5,000-hectare • The protection and improvement the coordination and establishment of
high mountain coniferous zone that was of registered tree species, such as objectives between government authorities
previously deforested, ﬁ rst with native Nothofagus (southern Beech) genus and a private company”. ■
species and then with other species as • The effective management of 8,000
determined by the characteristics of each hectares over nine years and the additional Charles Ford is Managing Editor for Boston
estate. protection of some 4,700 hectares (more Hannah International, publishers of the
The most difﬁ cult aspect of this work has of the 10% of the local total) ofﬁ cial publication for the International
been the coordination and establishment of • The effective transformation of a forest Year of Planet Earth. He has written about
objectives between government authorities project into a conservation programme, a wide range of topics, including social,
and a private company. To reach consensus, considering environmental and social economic and business, for international
the company pursued ISO certiﬁ cation for characteristics of the area where each publications.
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