CAN and World Conservation Union
collaborate on environmental
issues
Lima, June 4, 2007.- The Andean
Community General Secretariat (SGCAN)
and the Regional Office for South
America of the World Conservation
Union (UICN South America) will
work together to promote, expedite
and implement activities relating
to biodiversity, climate change
and water resources, the 2006-2010
Andean Environmental Agenda’s
three key areas for action.
The CAN Secretary General, Freddy
Ehlers, and the Acting Regional
Director of the UICN Office for
South America, Robert Hofstede,
accordingly signed a Memorandum of
Understanding during the Sixteenth
Meeting of the Andean Committee of
Environmental Authorities, held on
May 30 and 31 in Santa Cruz,
Bolivia.
Through that Memorandum, the two
institutions commit themselves to
promote the exchange of
information about the areas of
interest; enhance the development
of academic, cultural and
scientific relations in the Andean
Region; and provide institutional
support to the different programs,
projects and events that UICN
South America and the CAN General
Secretariat decide to further
jointly.
They also agreed to work together
on the following matters, inter
alia, establishment of the
Andean Institute for Biodiversity
(AIB) within the framework of the
Regional Strategy; the Great Inca
Route; formulation and
implementation of the Integrated
Water Resource Management Strategy
and implementation of the Andean
Strategy on Climate Change.
It should be pointed out that the
World Conservation Union is the
world’s largest conservation
network. It brings together 82
States, 111 government agencies,
over 800 non-governmental
organizations and roughly 10,000
scientists and experts from 181
countries. It collaborates,
through its Regional Office in
South America, with institutions
involved in environmental, social
equality, antipoverty, and
sustainable development issues, as
well as education in biodiversity
conservation.
