THE ORGANISERS
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Polish Ecological Club - Friends
of the Earth Poland
Polish Ecological Club was founded in Krakow in 1980 as
a non-profit, non-governmental organisation opposing treating the environment
as an owner-less, valueless property. Our main goal has been the practical
implementation of the sustainable development through raising environmental
awareness of the society; thus environmental education has been the first
of our tasks. Making people aware that the quality of life depends on
achieving the balance between technological development, humanistic values
and wise stewardship of the earth's natural resources together with preserving
the natural, historical and cultural heritage still is our main challenge.
Polish Ecological Club works in a three level structure - National Board
in Cracow, 12 Branches and 120 grassroots level groups operating throughout
the country.
www.pkegliwice.pl
Friends
of the Earth Europe
Friends
of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental network in the world,
campaigning to protect the environment and create sustainable societies.
Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) unites more than 30 national member
organisations with thousands of local groups. FoEE coordinates and supports
the campaigns and projects of its member groups which deal with a large
variety of subjects including food, farming and biotechnology; climate
change, energy, eco-taxation and nuclear safety; globalisation, trade,
corporate accountability and sustainable development; EU Accession; and
regional programmes in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe and the
Mediterraneean.
Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) remains a major cause of environmental
and social destruction giving incentives to highly intensive large scale
farming. Consumers are demanding safe quality food, produced in an environmentally
friendly way. FoEE's main campaign "Food and Farming: Time to Choose"
aims to channel the necessary public support for urgent CAP reform.
More about FoE campaign at
www.ChooseFoodChooseFarming.org
THE
FUNDERS
The
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The
Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is associated with the Green Party,
is a legally autonomous and intellectually open political fundation. We
are a federally organised national foundation with 16 state foundations
in all parts of Germany.
Our foremost task is political education in Germany and abroad with the
aim of promoting informed democratic opinion, socio-political commitment
and mutual understanding. In addition the Heinrich Böll Foundation
supports artistic and cultural as well as scholarly projects, and co-operation
in the development field. The political values of ecology, democracy,
gender democracy, solidarity and non-violence are our chief points of
reference.
Heinrich Böll's belief in and promotion of citizen participation
in politics is the model for the foundation's work.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation would like to become a focal point for
debates both on general principles and current issues, and to provide
impulses for socio-political reform.
www.boell.de
VROM, the Netherlands
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
The Netherlands is a densely populated country where issues
such as living space have to be carefully considered. We have to keep
the environment that we live, work, and recreate in liveable - not only
for ourselves but for future generations as well.
The four thousand employees of the Ministry of VROM work to find creative
and sustainable solutions for improving the living environment of this
country. They carry out their task in close co-operation with various
international and domestic partners. The Ministry operates in three major
areas. These are: living space, housing and environment. An additional
task is to plan, to conduct and to supervise the building of projects
in government housing.
The main
overall objective of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environmental
Management (VROM) is: ‘working for a permanent quality of the living environment’.
The VROM is responsible for co-ordinating environmental policy at government
level. However, unlike in many other countries several other ministries
have environmental tasks too, for example in the field of water quality
and nature management.
The international dimension is gaining a prominent role. The Netherlands
is trying to reduce the correlation between pollution and economic growth.
It sees the integration of the environment policy in sectors such as agriculture,
transport and energy supply as an important instrument for this purpose.
www.vrom.nl
The National Fund for Environmental Protection
and Water Management
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management was
established on the basis of an amended Act concerning the shaping and
protection of nature created on April 27 1989. The National Fund’s objectives
and scope of activities are defined by the following acts: ‘The Protection
and Shaping of the Environment Act’, ‘The Water Act’ and ‘The Geological
and Mining Act’. The main objective of the National Fund is funding projects
which serve the protection of the environment. to follow the sustainable
development principle. These projects have been described in the "National
Environmental Policy" adopted by the Polish Parliament in 1991 and
specified in the "Implementation Programme for the National Environmental
Policy by the year 2000". Their implementation is supervised by the
Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry.
www.nfosigw.gov.pl/site/index_en.php
FoE Europe
gratefully acknowledges EU funding support from the European Commission.
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