Achieving Environmental Objectives

From the Introduction
The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences in an IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (IUCN CEC) workshop held in Spain and organised by the CEC Deputy Chair, Susana Calvo at the Ministry of Environment, and CEC member, Paco Heras who held the meeting at the Environmental Education Centre, Valsaín, Spain in 2004. Practitioners from Europe shared their practice according to a case study format, and aimed to present the tipping point or change factor that resulted from the CEPA (communication, education, participation and public awareness) intervention.

The IUCN Commission on Education and Communication has been championing the integration of participatory communication and education in the environmental conventions since the mid 1980s, holding side events at the Conferences of the Parties, and preparing policy advice on CEPA. Commission members have been involved in developing the CEPA work programmes for the Ramsar – Wetlands, Convention on Biological Diversity and to a lesser extent, Climate Change Convention. Through the CEC working group we have been an advocate for the integration of these instruments in the work of the governments and to share knowledge on thinking and practice in CEPA.