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 The world's foremost experts on environmental enforcement and compliance will gather in the historic city of Marrakech, Morocco, in April 2005, for a week of plenary discussions, topical workshops, field visits, and internationally renown keynote speakers at the INECE 7th International Conference.
More than 200 high-level government officials and international and non-governmental representatives from more than 100 countries will convene from 10-15 April 2005 in Marrakech. The list of invitees includes Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Klaus Topfer, and the heads of environment ministries of Morocco, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom, and Canada and other OECD countries.
The INECE Conference will feature a series of panel discussions on a diverse array of topics, such as the relationship between good governance and compliance and enforcement. This panel will discuss how compliance and enforcement are key building blocks to rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development. It will also emphasize improving communication between lawmakers and enforcement practitioners to ensure better legislation. The panel will explore the environmental compliance and enforcement roles of civil society, environmental ministries, parliamentarians, judges and the press as well as consider ways to confront corruption and ensure transparency.
Other panel topics include environmental compliance and enforcement indicators, the implementation and enforcement of multilateral environmental agreements, and compliance and enforcement in the context of development banks.
The INECE Conference will also conduct more than 24 workshops covering such issues as the economic aspects of compliance and enforcement, communications policies, enforcement mechanisms to support emissions trading, penalty policies and judicial remedies, and criminal law and the environment.
The organisation of selected sessions of the Conference is supported by the OECD in the framework of the 2005 OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development.
For more information contact:
Krzysztof Michalak
Non-Member Countries Division
Environment Directorate
tel: (33 1) 45 24 96 00
fax: (33 1) 45 24 96 71
e-mail: krzysztof.michalak@oecd.org
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