CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

Pereulok Grivtsova 10, office 26, St.Petersburg 190000 RUSSIA
Phone/fax: +7 812 3156633, E-mail: info@ecocenter.spb.org

Press-release, 12 Sept 2001

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SAINT-PETERSBURG AND LENINGRAD REGION.

THREE YEARS AFTER AARHUS

This international seminar will be held in Lomonosov - Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on September 26-27, 2001. The seminar is organised by the inter-regional youth environmental NGO CHILDREN OF THE BALTIC, with the support of ST.PETESRBURG PUBLIC CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION in co-operation with Municipal Council of Lomonosov town, environmental NGOs GREEN WORLD, TEIA, KEEP ST.PETERSBURG TIDY; Department of Nature Resources of North-West Russia, and Danish Society for Nature Conservation.

The seminar objectives are :

• Exchange of experience in securing citizens rights for favourable environment and for access to environmental information;
• Developing ways of co-operation on local, regional and transnational level for promotion of ideas of the Aarhus Convention, public participation, sustainable development in the region of the Gulf of Finland;
• Planning co-operation in the sphere of education for sustainable development, involving young people in nature protection activity, disseminating ideas of sustainable way of living in the region of the Gulf of Finland, Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

The seminar participants are environmental activists from St.Petersburg, Leningrad region, Kaliningrad, Estonia, Denmark, Moldova, Belarus, representatives of St.Petersburg and Leningrad region Legislative Assemblies, local authorities, state nature protection organisations, educational institutions, journalists, leaders of youth nature protecting movement from Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region. The languages of the seminar are English and Russian.

The seminar is organised with the financial support of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, program AVA (Awareness - Values - Actions).

The organising committee of the seminar:
NGO <Children of the Baltic>
Olga Senova, tel./fax: +7 (812)4223278, e-mail: o_senova@spb.org.ru
Natalia Fedorova, tel.: +7 (812) 3567546, e-mail: tirol@au.ru

The Centre for Environmental Information is open for visitors on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. till 7 p.m. The Centre's address:
Pereulok Grivtsova 10, Building of the Russian Geographical Society, office 26 (metro station "Sennaya Ploshad"). Phone/fax: +7 812 3156622; E-mail: info@ecocenter.spb.org.