Green Ombudsmen To Meet In Budapest
- 22 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
Environmental ombudsmen from around the world will attend from Thursday a three-day meeting in Budapest under the chief patronage of President János Áder. The meeting was initiated by Hungary’s deputy ombudsman for the protection of future generations, Marcel Szabó, who told MTI the aim of the meeting was to agree on best-practices and jointly create an institutional model to serve as an example to countries that do not yet have a green ombudsman.
The most important task for green ombudsmen is to enforce the principle that it is “an obligation to preserve and pass on to future generations” the inherited natural environment, including water, air and soil and the diversity of the flora and fauna, he added.
The Budapest meeting will be attended by representatives of environmental ombudsman institutions from Finland, Canada, New Zealand, Wales, Germany, Norway, as well as representatives of the former green ombudsman’s office of Israel, where the post has been discontinued.
The participants plan to sign a memorandum for cooperation. Secretary- General of the United Nations Ban Kimoon will send a message of greeting.
The event will be opened by house speaker László Kövér and head of the Constitutional Court László Paczolay.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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