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IUCN and Globe International announce strategic alliance
Amman, Jordan, October 6, 2000 (IUCN) - On the occasion of the Second World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Amman, Jordan, IUCN Director-General Dr. Maritta Koch-Weser and the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) International President Senator Akiko Domoto will sign a Memorandum of Understanding formalising the beginning of their dynamic partnership.
IUCN, founded in 1948, brings together States, government agencies, NGOs, and scholars in a unique partnership to fulfil its mission to influence, encourage, and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and sustainable.
GLOBE, an international organisation of legislators from around the world, was founded in 1989 to enhance international co-operation between parliamentarians on global environmental issues. The organisation has more than 700 members and affiliate offices in Tokyo, Brussels, Capetown, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. GLOBE provides an active forum in which parliamentarians from different countries work together to forge balanced and informed policy responses to pressing global environmental challenges.
In this alliance, IUCN has a wide range of information networks and expert knowledge networks, as well as a convening capacity at the governmental and non-governmental level. GLOBE has direct access to an extremely strategic constituency of legislators from key countries and extensive experience carrying out successful global campaigns.
IUCN and GLOBE will collaborate in the next context of their regional programmes and in line with common priorities. The development of joint activities in order to facilitate the work of parliamentarians and enhance their capabilities to participate actively and effectively in the achievement of sustainable development will enable GLOBE members to be powerful agents of change towards more sustainable and environmentally sound policies.
IUCN seeks to utilise GLOBE's unique membership and organisational capacity within its programmes, especially on the regional and country levels. IUCN plans to include GLOBE and its membership in task forces, for the environment, and other related activities.
Information exchange is at the heart of the IUCN-GLOBE partnership. GLOBE is particularly eager to tap into IUCN's expert knowledge on the environmental issues for its Information Exchange Programme. The programme is intended to enhance the awareness in parliaments of international environmental policy and legislation. It also seeks to contribute to the generation of global debate on environmental policy by creating opportunities for exchange between parliaments on environmental policy questions.
By joining efforts, both GLOBE and IUCN will amplify their resources, expand their social area of influence, and strengthen their capacities to reach parliamentarians with relevant and up-to-date information.
For further information, please contact:
Josué Anselmo, The World Conservation Union - IUCN. Tel (++41 22) 999 0 207. E-mail: Joa@hq.iucn.org
IUCN-The World Conservation Union was founded in 1948 and brings together 77 states, 130 government agencies, 752 NGOs, 35 affiliates, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique world-wide partnership. Its mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Within the framework of global conventions IUCN has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. IUCN has approximately 1000 staff, most of whom are located in its 42 regional and country offices while 100 work at its Headquarters in Gland, Switzerland.
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