The Ministry of People’s Power for Planning, through the Venezuelan School of Planning Foundation (FEVP), promoted the Mass Training Conference on Popular Planning “Climate Change and Natural Disasters Challenges for life and for development”, where 57,028 participants attended.
The Planning Sector Vice President, Ricardo Menéndez, stressed that the climate issue is of interest to each one of us, that it has to do with culture and the conscience of society “this is everyone’s problem”.
Regarding the risk maps, the also Minister of Planning pointed out that they are not a separate task, but rather a chapter within the Social and Participatory Cartography within the Solution Maps.
«Mapping the risk, the events is essential so that we can see the behavior of the area. What is provided by the Community are the characteristics that are needed to build this risk map” he said.
In that sense, the Vice President of Planning warned that this issue should not become a fashion “in the face of the climate crisis we must preserve life and change the model, if we do not change we are going straight to the ravine. The learning that we have is very painful, let us assume a change of consciousness and a change of public policies, what is what the President of the Republic is requesting”.
For his part, the deputy and president of the Venezuelan Planning School Foundation, Ricardo Molina, asserted that capitalism has wreaked havoc on Mother Earth after the Industrial Revolution, destroying its two main sources of wealth: humanity and nature.
Molina also reported that the National Assembly (AN) permanent commission on ecosocialism is working on two legal instruments related to this issue, one Law is the Management of the Effects of Climate Change and the draft Law on Planning and Spatial Management. and Territorial to replace the Territorial Planning Law, refers an institutional press release.
It should be noted that this training session was attended by the Deputy Minister of Territorial Planning, Edgar Valero, together with professors José Arismendi, Virginia Jiménez and José Luis Berroterán.
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