LUIZ FURLAN

Luiz Furlan was Co-chairman of the board from 2009 to 2011 of BRF Brasil Foods, the second largest food company in Brazil and the 10th largest globally. He is a member of their board.

Luiz was educated in engineering and business, with a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering (FEI) and in Business Administration from FEA / PUC-SP. He specialized in Financial Management at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and Business Improvement at the University of São Paulo.

He became a Director of the Sadia food company in 1978, and Chairman in 1993. Ten years later he left Sadia on the invitation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to become Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. During his four-year tenure, Brazilian exports rose from US$60bn to US$160bn per year.

In December 2007 he became president of the Board of Directors of Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), an institution founded by the state government of Amazonas and Bradesco Bank, with mission to reduce deforestation in the Amazon forest and improve the living conditions of people living the state of conservation units.

Among many other posts, Mr Furlan has been President of the Brazilian Social Leaders Forum and the Brazilian Association of Publicly Owned Companies, and Vice-President of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association and the Latin American Entrepreneurs Council. He has chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Latin America, and currently chairs the Amazonas Sustainability Foundation. His civic interests include education, digital inclusion, and corporate contribution to social issues.

Luiz Fernando Furlan (Concórdia, 1946) é um empresário brasileiro. Foi ministro do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior do governo Lula.

Graduado em Engenharia Química pela Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial (FEI) e em Administração de Empresas pela FEA/PUC-SP, é especialista em Administração Financeira, pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas de São Paulo e em Aprimoramento Empresarial pela Universidade de São Paulo.

Até assumir o cargo de ministro, era desde 1993, o presidente do conselho de administração do grupo Sadia do qual é acionista e neto do fundador Attilio Fontana, onde atuava desde 1976, tendo sido diretor de relações com investidores e também vice-presidente executivo. Durante sua vida empresarial especializou-se em mercado de capitais, comércio exterior e agronegócio. Foi substituído por Miguel Jorge no Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior.

Em dezembro de 2007 assumiu a presidência do Conselho de Administração da Fundação Amazonas Sustentável(FAS), instituição fundada pelo governo do Estado do Amazonas e Banco Bradesco, com missão de reduzir o desmatamento na floresta amazonica e melhorar as condições de vida das pessoas que vivem nas unidades de conservação do estado.

Em Outubro de 2008, seis anos após deixar a Sadia para comandar o Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Luiz Fernando Furlan reassumiu a presidência do conselho de administração da Sadia. O retorno de Furlan foi uma resposta às perdas de 760 milhões de reais com apostas equivocadas em derivativos, anunciadas pela Sadia ao mercado pouco tempo após o estouro da bolha do subprime americano, que deu início à atual crise econômica e financeira.


Carol Browner	Victor Chu	Obiageli Ezekwesili	Luiz Furlan	Vladimir Golitsyn	Robert Hill	Yoriko Kawaguchi
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Pascal Lamy	Paul Martin	Sri Mulyani Indrawati	Cristina Narbona	Ratan Tata	Foua Toloa	Andrés Velasco

The objective of the Global Ocean Commission is to address the issues herein by formulating ‘politically and technically feasible short, medium, and long-term recommendations. The work of the Commission thus focuses on four key tasks:

1. To examine key threats, challenges, and changes to the ocean in the 21st century, and identify priority issues. The Commission will utilise both scientific and economic evidence, drawing on existing reports from world experts, as well as commencing original research in partnership with other organisations.

2. To review the effectiveness of the existing legal framework for the high seas in meeting these challenges. According to the Commission, this means a special focus on the effectiveness of regional fisheries management organisations, particularly with respect to their accountability, transparency, and performance. It also means reviewing the governance gap on biodiversity conservation and analysing options for combatting IUU fishing. The Commission will also assess the suitability of the existing legal regime for regulating emerging uses of the global ocean.

3. To engage with interested parties around the world, as well as the general public. The Commission will connect with fishers, military and merchant navies, recreational sailors, seafood companies, conservation groups and the emergent seabed mining business. The Commission also aims to raise understanding among policymakers, economists and other groups, including the general public, of the implications should high seas issues not be reformed.

4. To make recommendations regarding ‘cost-effective, pragmatic and politically feasible reforms of high seas governance, management and enforcement.’ While the threat analysis will take account of external issues such as climate change, recommendations will focus on reforms that can be achieved by evolving high seas governance. Some may concern the fundamental legal framework under which the global ocean is governed, whereas others may focus on improving the effectiveness of existing mechanisms.

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GLOBAL OCEAN COMMISSIONERS - A map of the world showing the location of the GOC's commissioners.


Simon Reddy	Rémi Parmentier	Clare Brennan	Kristian Teleki	Inés de Águeda	Sarah Gardner

RICH COUNTRIES PAY ZOMBIES $5 BILLION A YEAR IN SUBSIDIES TO PLUNDER THE OCEANS - If industrial fleets weren’t subsidized, they’d go out of business. Small-scale fisheries that don’t need enormous amounts of fuel to catch huge hauls of fish - i.e. the ones using sustainable fishing practices - would then in theory thrive. Many of these fishermen are in poor countries whose governments can’t afford to compete in the industrial looting.

Worse, there’s a double-whammy zombie effect going on in the fishing context. Government subsidies to highly destructive industrial fleets don’t just deprive small-scale fishermen of finite taxpayer dollars and edge them out of the market with cheap prices; they also rob them of current and long-term fishing stocks.

The Global Ocean Commission at its meeting in Oxford, 21st-23rd November 2013 (left to right) Robert Hill, Paul Martin, Foua Toloa, Yoriko Kawaguchi, Simon Reddy (Executive Secretary), Victor Chu, Andrés Velasco, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Trevor Manuel (Co-chair), Cristina Narbona, David Miliband (Co-chair), John Podesta, Pascal Lamy, José María Figueres (Co-chair), Vladimir Golitsyn, Ratan Tata.

Members of the Global Ocean Commission at their inaugural meeting in Cape
Town, South Africa. Left to right: Robert Hill, Trevor Manuel (Co-chair), Cristina Narbona, David Miliband (Co-chair), Obiageli Ezekwesili, Foua Toloa, José María Figueres (Co-chair), Sir Ratan Tata.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commissioner_for_Maritime_Affairs_and_Fisheries

http://www.virgin.com/unite/leadership-and-advocacy/introducing-global-ocean-commission

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prince-charles-speaks-dangers-plastic-waste-oceans-29736519

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150318-prince-charles-oceans-trash-plastic-britain/

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-18/prince-charles-makes-impassioned-plea-for-oceans-clean-up/