Cooperation on the environment. 1. The aim of cooperation shall be to encourage conservation and improvement of the environment, prevention of contamination and degradation of natural resources and ecosystems, and rational use of the latter in the interests of sustainable development.
Cooperation on the environment. In instituting cooperation on environmental matters, the Contracting Parties affirm their will to contribute to sustainable development; they will endeavour to reconcile the need for economic and social development with the need for due protection of nature and will devote par- ticular attention in their cooperation to the most disad- vantaged sections of the population, to the urban environ- ment and to the protection of ecosystems such as tropical forests. To those ends, the Parties shall endeavour to work to- gether on measures targeting in particular: — the creation and improvement of public and private- sector environmental structures, — public information and awareness, — the implementation of studies and projects and the provision of technical assistance, — the organization of meetings, seminars, etc., — exchanges of information and experience, — research projects on disasters and their prevention, — the development and alternative economic use of protected areas, — industrial cooperation applied to the environment.
