23 April 2008
Luanda — Defining of priority activities for the 2008/09 period tops the second day of discussions of the experts meeting of the 4th CPLP Environment Ministers Conference.
The Ministers Conference will start on Thursday at the Talatona Conventions Centre, south of Luanda, ANGOP learnt this Wednesday.
Speaking to ANGOP, the spokesman of the event, Vladimiro Russo informed that the experts are debating in separate working groups, on the various themes attributed to each country namely Biodiversity (Guinea Bissau), Combat to Desertification and Reducing the Effects of Droughts (Mozambique), Ecotourism (Cape Verde), Environmental Education (Angola), Navy and Coastal Environmental Management (Brazil), Management of Residues (Sao Tome and Principe), Integrated Management of Water Resources (Portugal) and Climatic Changes and Renewable Energies (Portugal).
The implementation of the CPLP Platform of CPLP in the environment area, a document that was approved during the third conference, held in Brasilia in May 2006, which shows the engagement of member States regarding multilateral agreements, will be also part of environment ministers' discussions.
The meeting of Environment ministers of the community will be opened by a technical segment that will also analyse the rate of fulfilling the recommendations of the previous conference.
CPLP is made up of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor.
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