Seminar on environment

Seminar on environment

SEMARANG: The Semarang-based Diponegoro University's center for environment is scheduled to hold a seminar on environment and sustainable development next week.

The seminar will be held in a bid to remind both the government and society on the need to modify the culture and the current perceptions to help promote the concept of sustainable development, a statement from the university said.

Modification is urgently needed because the environmental sector has become a global issue that determines the position of any country in international diplomacy, the statement said.

Despite reports on improving international cooperation in environmental management since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the general condition of the global environment has been declining, the statement said.

A source at the university confirmed that Indonesia had been appointed to lead a preparatory committee for the ministerial summit in the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in September next year in South Africa. -- Antara