Training and Advanced Education Unit (TAE)
Training and Educational Outreach

Planet Earth: How to Save Her?

UNICRI was an active player in a recent local environmental awareness initiative as part of the International Year of Plant Earth (IYPE) and the United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. Aimed at students, parents, teachers and citizens of the region of Piedmont the programme sought to locate the role of the region in the global fight against environmental harm.

Entitled IYPE – Planet Earth: How to save her? the project, which ran from November 2008 to, May 2009 aimed to define the role of what governments, international organisations and civil society in the emerging environmental crisis, which threatens the security of our planet.

The project brought together many local players such as UNESCO, SIOI Piedmont and Aosta Valley, CIF/OIL, the University of Turin, and the UNSCC, under a common agenda of finding ways to make the Earth a better place for humanity.

As part of the course, UNICRI was delighted to provide special coaching on the issue of environmental crime, delivering lectures on the relationship between the environment and the law on both an international and local level. Some of the issues raised by the UNICRI representatives included the traffic of waste, illegal deforestation, traffic of rare and protected species of flora and fauna, abusive fishing practices and the traffic of substances, which are damaging the ozone layer.