«Since the beginning of the 21st century, in view of the catastrophic decline in biodiversity and the manifest human vulnerability to climate change, environmental diplomacy has become an unavoidable reality. In 2020, the pandemic only increased the visibility of the interconnection between all the peoples of the world and between them and nature, reinforcing the centrality of environmental diplomacy. However, diplomacy cannot fail to rely on the transparency of the shared management of the main Common Good - the terrestrial system. Combining geospatial technologies with environmental diplomacy is nowadays of strategic importance».
«The world today has dangerous environmental issues that threaten humanity and the environment and reveal a greater geopolitical and geo-legal challenge. The need to build a culture of cooperation and the legal regime of solidarity are some of the challenges of Diplomacy and Environmental Paradiplomacy. It will be up to government officials, diplomats, the academic-scientific community and citizens, through the techniques of plural negotiations, regulation, contracts and self-management mechanisms to build the geo-law for planetary environmental protection».
«The acceleration of the decline in biodiversity and the awareness of man's vulnerability in a context of imbalances in an environment that he has profoundly transformed, have changed the content of the dialogue between States. It is no longer simply a question of discussing the sharing of natural resources, seeking demarcation lines between marine or terrestrial areas, bringing into play the responsibility of one State towards another State or protecting a particular species at the international level, but of determining the paths of international cooperation to prevent and combat global changes and their trans-State effects. This new geopolitical challenge calls for the necessary cooperation between States because of the environmental interconnections that bind them and make them interdependente»
«Since imemorial times, humanity has maintained a close correspondence with the environment that surrounds it, enjoying a large number of rights that, fundamentally, legitimate its use. In this context, Environmental Diplomacy is one of the most appropriate ways to face the challenges and goals of environmental sustainability in the 21st century, due to the obligation to preserve and protect the stability of the environment in its interaction with man and technology»
«In the last years of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century, the “great battle of ideas”, that is, the debate on Contemporaneity, has been around a deep reflection on environmental issues. Since then, as Viriato Soromenho-Marques points out, “the need for an international environmental policy is imperative, as an attempt to find an answer, on the same plane and on the same scale, to the critical problems, whose planetary contours, require concerted action by States." In this context, Environmental Diplomacy is central to sustainability and the need to ensure social justice for all. Relevance that, gained more visibility with the deepening of the ecological crisis, with the increase of average temperatures and the destruction of biodiversity».
«Sustainability is the cornerstone underlying the UN 2030 Agenda and on a global scale the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the action plan for the next decade, uniting people, cultures, governments, public and private entities around a set of shared goals. Global problems require common solutions, culturally transversal and with multidisciplinary measures in order to enable their sustainability and effective success. Living in a global world today means assuming the space of others as our own and, concomitantly, facing the problems of others as problems for all. In this search for the common good and shared solutions, dialogue and mediation as instruments of participative diplomacy will constitute the basis for ensuring the desired sustainable development»
«Representative democracy is difficult to adapt to intertemporal problems and the assumption of long-term responsibilities - as those associated with sustainability would be - basically because future generations do not vote. Since it is not intended to give up neither democracy nor sustainability, it is important to unravel the role of digital technologies in this equation. In addition to the economic, social and environmental dimensions traditionally associated with sustainability, it is up to scientists to deepen the features of a concept of technological sustainability that articulates those three dimensions, in order to unravel how the digital age can / should be placed at the service of sustainability - here understood as a paradigm of global community experience in the 21st century -, prospectively transforming the nature of economic growth, the sense of social inclusion and the challenge of environmental protection».
«International relations are the basis for instrumenting tools that can build the platform on which to establish strategies to change public policies, mechanisms for resolving environmental conflicts, in convergence with the defense of the fundamental rights of citizens through reception by States. Environmental Diplomacy has a proactive character in the correct realization of global environmental paradigms»
«Environmental democracy was born at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Among other fundamental environmental principles during that world meeting, Principle 10 was adopted with undeniable consensus. We have just begun to become aware of the recognition of the environmental challenges. We face them almost dramatically, knowing that we can only overcome such challenges with access to information, participation and environmental justice. After 6 years of negotiations in 2018, the Escazú Agreement was signed, which reaffirms and strengthens this principle and the three basic pillars for environmental decision-making. It is a regional treaty on Environmental Law of fundamental importance for Latin America».
«In a world full of environmental crises and emergencies that add to other existing crises and emergencies, it is important to find new ways and strategies to deal with the complex challenges ahead. Environmental diplomacy is one such way, essential to raise awareness and develop cooperation in an increasingly globalised and interconnected world. Environmental diplomacy must be a priority on the Agenda of the international community of decision-makers, and it is our purpose to help put it where it belongs»
«The nature of existential vulnerability unites the human family and environmental goods, observed beyond guaranteeing our survival and dignity, project their importance from the local dimension to the international scene. Diplomacy and Legal Paradiplomacy are expressions of the need for dialogues, understandings, constructions and compositions of sources and normative instruments of law and their purposes are confused with the realization of Human Rights. Brazil's rich historical, cultural, legal and environmental experience, which was made independent by diplomacy, should be continued to accompany this two-way road that links human nature to environmental nature»