St. Petersburg

Open discussions allowed considering different opinions on the implementation of the Environmental policy and to share the responsibilities for its implementation

Discussions with different stakeholders on the implementation of the Environmental policy

The main objective was to integrate different stakeholders in the process of the implementation of the Environmental policy and to share the responsibilities for its implementation.

The Policy has been developed by the group of relevant experts upon the requies of the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety in 2007 and several meetings were organised to discuss it with different stakeholders, their comments were processed and integrated by the working group.

In December 2007 the Policy was approved by the Decree of the Government of St. Petersburg.

The initiator of the process was the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety of the City of St. Petersburg.

Working group, consisted from environmental experts, business, representatives from Universities and schools, religion confessions, NGOs, developed the draft of the policy

Representatives of local authorities, NGOs, business, science and education took part in the discussions

The method was mainly aimed for local authorities, business, NGOs, science and education

All the activities were funded by the City budget

The comments and proposals made during the discussions were processed and integrated in the final document by the working group

Elena Titova
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ecatsp@mail.lanck.net