Name: Raquel Helene Kleber
Raquel Helene Kleber from Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB)
Age: 22
Function: International Affairs Student
Country of origin: Brazil
Church of origin: Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB)
What is really important for my life?
As an enthusiastic student of International Affairs, I enjoy to be constantly learning and interacting with people from diverse cultures. I am also passionate about Sustainable Development and Climate Change issues, which inspired me to write academic research around these themes. Within the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, I am involved in the coordination of the project Criatitude – Youth for the Care of Creation. It is a youth educational national project that encourages Lutheran Christians to use creative attitudes in the promotion of eco-justice, which counted with the joint work of the Regional Council of Youth Rio dos Sinos and the Lutheran Foundation of Diaconia – FLD. The main goals of the project are to raise awareness of responsible consumption, encourage youth leadership towards the care of creation and involve young Christians in the ecumenical participation of the Conference of the People in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20.
My goal in life has always been to make a difference and promote positive impact in the society, and family and values are essential for my life and work.
What do I expect?
As for the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) I hope for a commitment to the next period of the Kyoto Protocol and to further emission reductions, for the Youth for Eco-Justice, I am learning about socio and environmental issues including those in the different countries. During these days I have also being able to share the Brazilian concerns and projects regarding such issues, which also
As a concerned Brazilian, I am also enjoying this program, since Brazil is home to the largest part of the rainforest, the Amazon, and home to enormous biodiversity and natural water reserve, but also facing several socio and environmental problems. Regarding the climate change negotiations, I believe Brazil can play a key role in the Climate Change negotiations, not only as a developing nation, but also in the leadership in GHG emission reductions.
Furthermore, Brazil hosts the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20, in June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, for which I hope to help bridge the connections from COP17. Although Rio+20 main focus will be on green economy and poverty eradication, arises there an opportunity for the incidence of ecumenical bodies worldwide towards a more just and responsible development - relating to Eco-Justice itself.
I intend to set up a solid network for the young people, which will be able to keep connected and engage in a continuous learning.
What do I intend to do for my church/country to achieve environmentally Justice?
One of the things that I intend to bring home from the outcome of this program is a concrete sustainable project on Eco-Justice targeting the youth. Such a project will be a continuation of the work that my church has worked on this year and also connected with the ongoing project Criatitude.
The church has a crucial role to play in society, providing an ethical perspective on climate change and promoting the environmental and social justice. I do believe that sustainability and the care for Creation are at the centre of the word of God and I have faith that together we have the power to make our world a more just one.
what i do like in my life is to see that all the people are equal in every thing eg Education level, finance, health and i like beautiful environment with proper protection.
I do expect that in some few year to come if govornment and the people around watch out the we shall not have beautiful environment like we are having today as the result of deforestation , lumbering farming activities etc
For our church or country to achieve environmentally just, is just by sensitizing people about the goodness of our environment and the danger of destroy the environment and advice them to plant trees after cutting, avoid bush burning, lumbering etc