Congress on eco management

The Tribune , Friday, May 05, 2006
Correspondent : Staff Reporter
Palampur, May 4

Preparations for the eighth World Congress on Environment Management, (WCEM) being held here from June 9 to June 11, are on. Picturesque tourist resort nestling in the lap of Dhauladhar hills and known as tea town of Himachal is being spruced up to receive foreign delegations and other policy makers, thinkers, environmentalists and industrialists from all over the country.

Consecutively this is the fifth World Congress being held at Palampur. In view of degradation of environment due to green house gases (GHGs) in atmosphere challenge before mankind has become more serious.

Dr Madhav Mehra, President, World Environment Foundation (WEF) here today warned on one hand the governments, NGOs, Scientists, environmentalists and businesses were denouncing climate change, on the other hand nation was witnessing the worst of the consumerism causing loss to ecological equilibrium. He announced “Partnering to Prevent Climate Change” as theme of the eighth World Congress on Environment Management (WCEM).

Elaborating his strategy Dr Mehra announced the formation of a global human chain to prevent global climate change. For this organisers of the Congress are trying to reach out to millions of people, connect with every single organisation, industry, NGO, educational institution and make every body aware of the consequences of climate change for our generation next.

Regional offices of WEF in Palampur, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore in India, London (U.K) and Portugal abroad, are working overtime to make partners with hundreds of organisations to make it happen through a collective approach.

As a prelude to the WEF had given the slogan to the participants “We take a pledge to combat global warming and change in climate.

So far, besides 130 organisations from within India, 14 countries such as the USA, the UK, Austria, Canada, South Africa, Sweden, Portugal, Pakistan, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc have confirmed participation of delegations in the eighth WCEM here.

 
SOURCE : The Tribune, Friday, May 05, 2006
 


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