“The Green Forum: Environmental Problems in the Political
Context” was held on the initiative of YABLOKO’s Green Russia
faction in the Moscow Region on May 28, 2012.
Representatives from 64 environmental organizations from
35 Russian regions from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka participated
in the Forum so that to discuss the political and environmental
situation in Russia.
YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky and the leaders of the Green
Russia faction (Acad. Alexei Yablokov, Alexander Nikitin and
Olga Tsepilova) participated in the Forum. The discussion
was also attended by leaders of environmental organisations
such as Greenpeace Russia, the Russian branch of the World
Wildlife Fund, the International Socio-Ecological Union, as
well as a number of influential regional organisations such
as Dodo, Nizhni Novgorod, Ecodefence, Kaliningrad, Plotina.Net!,
Krasnoyarsk, Bellona, St. Petersburg, Siberian Ecocentre,
Novosibirsk, the Far East Fund for Environmental Health, Vladivostok,
the Kamchatka League of Independent Experts, the Union of
Moscow Environmental Organisations, the Union of Bashkirian
Environmentalists and the Green Branch, Yaroslavl.
The Forum adopted an Address to Environmental Activists and
Organisations.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
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