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World Environment Day (World Environment Day – Wed) which is celebrated each year on 5 June and this year will be ‘devoted to”Forests: nature at your service” , for the International Year of Forests issued by the United Nations for 2011 and The Sun ‘was opened by the United Nations General Assembly at the opening of the United Nations Conference on Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. On the eve of the celebrations, the WWF takes stock of tropical forests, and when you ‘just concluded Summit in Brazzaville, in Congo, a country that retains an extraordinary wealth of biodiversity’. A get together, over 500 delegates, representing about 30 countries that surround the three main basins of tropical forests (Congo, Amazon and Borneo Mekong) and other countries and / or sub-regions and development partners together also to Italy, one of the partner countries.
The Summit has given an impetus to the protection of tropical forest environments with the Joint Declaration between the participating countries, an”encouraging step”toward a cooperation agreement itself which could be endorsed at the next meeting RIO + 20”” which will take place ‘in Brazil in 2012.
The objective of the Summit was in fact to support the creation of a South-South cooperation on the one hand and the other north-south, from the perspective of sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the Amazon basin, Congo and Borneo Mekong. Only these areas, in fact, contain 80% of tropical forests and home to two thirds of biodiversity ‘land, while providing livelihood to over one billion people.
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