HRH Princess Lalla Hasna urges Moroccans to contribute to Environment protection
MARRAKESH, June 11 – HRH Princess Lalla Hasna, sister of HM King Mohammed VI of Morocco, on Friday urged all Moroccans to contribute to the protection of environment, stressing that the monarch’s strategy in this field “builds on global, solidarity-based vision.”
HRH the princess who was addressing the opening session in Marrakech of the 24th general assembly of the Foundation for Environmental Education, recalled the “ambitious, yet realistic” nationwide plan prepared by government agencies, community leaders, NGOs and the business community. For the plan to succeed, she said, “all Moroccans are under a moral obligation to get involved and contribute to the protection of our environment and of our planet Earth.”
She stressed that the strategy of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI for the protection of the environment “builds on a global, solidarity-based strategy, that includes struggle against scourges that affect human dignity as well as the environment”.
HRH Princess Lalla Hasna, who is chairwoman of the Mohammed VI Foundation for environment Protection, said the monarch has made “bold decisions to curb poverty and substandard housing.” In addition, she went on, he has initiated major projects to upgrade urban and rural infrastructure, as part of the nationwide town and country planning scheme.
HRH Princess Lalla Hasna added that “Morocco’s commitment to protecting the environment as well as the bold policies it has designed to preserve nature, are further evidenced by the fact that our country has become party to all relevant international conventions”. These convention include those relevant to the Rio Protocol concerning biodiversity, the fight against desertification and climate changes, in addition to the Kyoto Protocol, whose implementation mechanisms were laid down at the 7th ministerial level conference of the parties to the UN convention on climate change, which took place in Marrakesh in November 2001.
HRH the princess emphasized how Morocco’s commitment to international obligations “lies in the enforcement of a whole set of laws, including legislation on the protection and development of environment.”
The nationwide plan, she explained, calls for “comprehensive, concrete and realistic actions to be undertaken to tackle such phenomena as the depletion and deterioration of water resources, desertification and air pollution. It also addresses the need to devise suitable solutions for the collection and treatment of solid and liquid waste.”
FEE is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization consisting of Member organisations representing 28 countries in Europe and furthermore South Africa, Morocco, Canada, Chile and several countries in the Caribbean.
Since 1981, FEE has actively promoted and delivered education about the environment and sustainable development through the following international programs, which aim to deliver Agenda 21 commitments and involve people of all ages and nationalities through both formal and informal education.
The Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe (FEEE) was established in 1981 both to raise awareness of environmental issues and effect change through education. These are both crucial in striving towards sustainability. In 2001, FEEE became FEE, as South Africa joined as the first non-European member. At present, the organization is looking towards expanding into several different parts of the world.
Its programs are designed to involve people of all ages and across borders through both formal and informal education.
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