Havana, Jul 2.- The XIV International Convention on Environment and Development will open this Monday in Havana and run until next Friday, attended by more than 1,400 delegates from 27 countries.

Most of the participants were Cuban, said its main promoter, the Environment Agency (AMA), one of the three Ministries of Science, Technology and Environment, referring to researchers, authorities, educators, specialists, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, manufacturers and others. who work for the sustainability of the planet.

According to this program of dual events, their personal and online deliberations will be at the Environmental Education for Sustainable Development, Protected Areas, and Environmental Management congresses.

Also on Ecosystem and Biodiversity Management, Climate Change, Politics, Justice and Environmental Law, Geospatial Science and Disaster Risk, and Colloquium V on Transportation and the Environment.

Basically they will promote exchange of experiences, sustainable practices, transfer of knowledge, sustainable and inclusive economic growth, participatory social development, environmental protection and human dignity.

The sessions will be held in eight hotel facilities in the Cuban capital and the organizing committee will work in Meliá Habana, in the municipality of Playa in the capital.

The opening ceremony will be held at the Cuban National Aquarium, where until Thursday, July 6, a group of national and international experts will be giving lectures, including Lyes Ferroukhi, leader of the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Team Nature, Climate and Energy, of the United Nations Development Programme.

Also from Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Cuba, on behalf of Doctor of Science Nicasio Viña Dávila, technical director of the Biological Corridor in the Caribbean, an initiative of the governments of Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, will do So.

The latter was established on 10 July 2007 to promote cooperation, protection and reduction of loss of biodiversity in the Caribbean and tropical or Neotropical American Regions.

According to the organizers, 156 presentations will be presented, 152 of them oral, four posters, five panels and the Education Conference on sustainable development as a public policy strategy in Cuba, and delegations from the country’s provinces will also attend.

The general conference will be broadcast on the digital platform of the meeting with the participation of figures from multilateral environmental organizations, environment ministries and prestigious researchers.

The I International Convention on Environment and Development took place in 1997 at the Havana Convention Center and subsequent ones also until XIV.

Current ones include the Ministerial Meeting, Ministers and Higher Authorities for Environment and Science, the Young People with Environmental Science Symposium for Sustainable Development and the Science and Environment Women’s Panel.

By country, representatives from Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Angola, Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cameroon,

In addition to Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, the United States, Spain, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Peru and Paraguay.

The organizers list includes the Dominican Republic, Russia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Uruguay.

The AMA is an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, and the national sponsors of its meetings are organizational centers and institutions, the Cuban Academy of Sciences, professional societies and foundations.

In the same way, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) were added.

Its honorary president is Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, who last week attended in Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Nations (CELAC) Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting .

Later he advocated the promotion of science, technology and innovation as a way to strengthen the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. (Text: ACN) (Photo: Internet)