「ラムサール条約と水問題」
Water, Water, everywhere nor any a drop to drink(*)
-ラムサール条約の40年
(*)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798.
ピーター・ブリッジウォーター
英国共同自然保護委員会(JNCC)委員長
セミナー概要
セミナー言語:英語
The world’s most pressing environmental problem is ensuring water for all to drink. On 2 February 1971 the world’s first modern international convention on an environmental issue was signed into effect, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. These two statements are surprisingly linked. The “Founding Fathers” of the Ramsar Convention were driven by an anxiety that migratory waterbirds were in increasing danger because of loss of their breeding, feeding and resting habitats. And yet in their wisdom they created a convention focussed on wetland ecosystems, rather than just wetland birds. Forty-one years later, the Convention is looking to deal with a range of issues, including the key role of wetlands in protecting, producing and purifying water. The seminar looks at the decadal development of the Convention, reviews its current challenges, and takes a peek at a possible future?one where the words of the Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner will be poetry still, not awful truth.
プログラム
14:00 – 14:05 開催挨拶
ゴヴィンダン・パライル、国連大学副所長兼国連大学高等研究所所長
14:05 – 14:45 Water, Water, everywhere nor any a drop to drink(*)
ラムサール条約の40年
ピーター・ビリッジウォーター、英国共同自然保護委員会(JNCC)委員長
14:45 – 15:15 ディスカッション
日時:2012年4月9日(月)、14:00 – 15:15
場所:国連大学高等研究所(横浜市西区みなとみらい1-1-1 パシフィコ横浜国際協力センター6F)
参加費:無料
申込方法:ホームページより申込(4月8日(日)まで)
http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=8&ddlID=2030
問合先:
国連大学高等研究所
電話 045-221-2300
Eメール unuias@ias.unu.edu