H.E. the PUIC Secretary General attended the 8th Session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, held in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 24-27 May, 2017 under the slogan “Environment and Education: A Clean Country” .

His Excellency addressed the Session and talked about the risks of climate change which threaten the entire human societies.  He reviewed the PUIC experiences in the field of paying attention to the environment, and welcomed the exchange of information in this respect and in creating a new curricular which concerns the Environmental protection and the public health.
His Excellency added: “Our world faces perils of climate change which endanger the entire human communities, including food security and health. Among the main reasons for this situation are those man- made practices, the most threatening of which result in raising the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, namely:

•  The three types of pollution: land, air, and sea;
•  Human activities such as cutting down and burning of forests, soil erosion, drying and changing the courses of water resources, etc.”