tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54780265002603648202008-11-25T14:23:32.354-08:00Ifpra Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716673834048091840noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478026500260364820.post-77622224275508766182008-11-25T04:35:00.000-08:002008-11-25T14:23:32.386-08:00<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-size:10;color:green;" >International Federation of Parks &amp; Recreation Administration<br />Press Release - November 2008</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;">There is little doubt that the realities of climate change as they gain greater acknowledgment and policy responses, will lead to the emergence of new industries and economic models.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;">These new initiatives will almost certainly be based around investments in ‘clean’ technologies and the natural infrastructure such as forests, soils and water.<span style=""> </span>They are likely to drive the evolution of new professions and an employment boom in the 21^st century.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;">Achim Steiner, UNRP Executive Director, said recently ‘the financial, food and fuel crisis if 2008 are in part a result of speculation and a failure of governments to intelligently manage and focus markets’.<span style=""> </span>By this, he means that an economic focus has occurred at the expense of social and environmental issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;">He indicated that the failure in particular had lead to the disturbing loss of environmental capital and nature-based assets, and based around the over reliance on finite and over-subsidised fuels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;">An Ifpra spokesperson said today that the opportunities presented socially and environmentally, would spawn a need to revise our current practices, which most often had a singular economic focus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Ifpra Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716673834048091840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478026500260364820.post-9084530728190983302008-11-20T01:08:00.000-08:002008-11-20T01:12:51.169-08:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">French speakers may be interested in the Conference "Vers une ville bioclimatique" to be held in Montpellier France on 11th and 12th December 2008. For more details go to <a href="http://www.enact-montpellier.cnfpt.fr/colloque_biodiversite/index.php">http://www.enact-montpellier.cnfpt.fr/colloque_biodiversite/index.php </span></span></a>Ifpra Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716673834048091840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478026500260364820.post-59989503125959577422008-11-18T04:28:00.000-08:002008-11-18T13:16:01.849-08:00<span style="font-family:arial;">International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration (Ifpra) and International Federation of Landscape Architects (Ifla) sign Memorandum of Understanding - for full details of the Memorandum of Understanding follow the link <a href="http://www.ifpraeurope.org/pr-ifla-ifpra.asp">for more</a>.</span>Ifpra Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716673834048091840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478026500260364820.post-41657924859417013712008-07-15T06:17:00.000-07:002008-07-15T06:18:20.029-07:00Welcome to the latest news pages of Ifpra Europe. Please keep checking back for new updates.Ifpra Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716673834048091840noreply@blogger.com0