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Be the change you want to see in the world

 Mahatma Gandhi

 
AIMEEPA is dedicated to protect the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems. We are guided by scientific evaluation of environmental problems, and the solutions we advocate are based on the latest scientific studies in the field of environment. AIMEEPA aims to find out sustainable solutions that will have direct environment-al, economic and social impact. As an organization based in Europe, working for the region, we pay special attention to Middle East & North Africa environmental problems and to European environmental know– how, aiming to share our approach and our vision. Our vision is crystal clear, we believe that people of developing countries have the Right to enjoy the fruits of the latest environmental know – how and its fruits and to live in a clean and healthy environment that can reach the peace and the freedom.
 
Our Objectives
  • To promote awareness of the importance of protecting the environment, and the crucial role of a clean environment in achieving human dignity, sustainable economical development and prosperity, for a comprehensive social development.
  • To present and promote the latest International environmental technologies and know – how in the region.
  • To be a bridge of cooperation between NGO's, governments and private sector, and environment institutions in Austria, EU contraries and the countries in this region.
  • To develop programs for public environmental education in an interactions approach.
  • To high light the important role of Women, and their vital role in spreading the culture of clean environment, and implementing the basic principles and love of a clean environment. Thus forming children with healthy habits and respect for their Built environment.
Principles of Operation
 Aimeepa aspires to implement the four principles of sustainable development:
  • Ecology, for the ecosystem and ensuring pure air and water, moderation of weather elements, “creating” land and increasing its fertility, pollination, and other activities are vital to the existence and welfare of the Region Citizens, as they are to humanity and life at large. In the absence of responsible management of natural resources, those same ecosystems in Region upon which life is dependent will collapse under the pressures of development and the increase in population and consumption. Modifying the Earth’s environment by human activities, human beings were able to escape the environmental constraints that limited other species and to change the environment to meet their needs, AIMEEPA will act to conserve and improve the capacity of nature and its ability to provide ecological services, preventing damage to them by destructive aspires.
     
  • Social, Nature and ecological services belong to the public, now and in the future. They are a cultural asset and an essential corner stone in building the region heritage, and fill a vital role in creating social unity, along with national and civic identity. Inadequate environmental protection as well insufficient access and enjoyment of our cultural scenery, nature, and ecological services by large segments of the population intensify social gaps and tensions. AIMEEPA program for Blooming the Deseret (Plant Your Life Tree) are an example of services provided by nature. In light of the fact that healthy development is aimed at increasing the sense of public unity and minimizing social tensions, AIMEEPA will view in nature as social-cultural resource that belongs to all, and will act to preserve, rehabilitate, and nurture it.
     
  • Economic, Development seeks to establish economic development on the basis of ecological and social principles. AIMEEPA aspires to foster economic opportunities alongside an enlightened, comprehensive strategy for using the ecosystem’s “interest”, and not it’s “principal”, for the benefit of the entire Region public. This policy should ensure livelihoods for the region citizens and serve as a significant economic asset to both local and the national government.
     
  • Inter-gene rationality, AIMEEPA holds in its trust for present and future generations, natural resources, and will therefore continue to act for defence and to avoid the acquisition by private or business interests whose aim is to profit from them in short term.
Implementation
Applying the principles of sustainable development requires the broadening of horizons during the process of crafting policy and its implementation. In the context of consolidation of appropriate policy, the following must be taken into consideration:
  • A multi-disciplinary analysis Of AIMEEPA policy to evaluate the impact of the entirety of ecological and social parameters.
  • A broad-based analysis of AIMEEPA policy to evaluate the impact of its activities on the full range of geographic regions, from the local to the global.
  • A long-term impact analysis of AIMEEPA policy, evaluating its impact on future generations.
  • Looking before We Leap, AIMEEPA will act to shape a “sustaining” vision in all spheres of its activity. Policies in the present will be derived from objectives set for the future.
  • An Applied Policy of Sustainability, A focused policy that translates the abstract principles of sustainable development into specific criteria and concrete practices will be formulated for all spheres of AIMEEPA activity.
  • The Precautionary Principle, AIMEEPA is alert to unanticipated threats to natural treasures and the environment that are entailed in unmonitored human activity. In situations of scientific uncertainty, AIMEEPA will act proactively to ensure that natural treasures and the environment are not harmed.
 
Tools
Parallel to the shaping and implementation of a “sustainable” policy in all spheres of activity, AIMEEPA will apply general tools for the advancing of sustainable development, including but not restricted to:
  • Public involvement, Because a sustainable policy is founded on broad public-civic support, and because development is for the sake of present and future generations. AIMEEPA will proactively initiate the involvement of the public and ensure transparency in its information and decision-making processes as an integral part of its policy implementation.
     
  • Surveys and studies, AIMEEPA will take precautionary measures in its development activity, including the drafting of environmental surveys that examine all aspects of sustainability prior to the execution of projects that have significant implications for the environment. Due to impact on future generations, the will invest independent scientific and planning resources in research studying the long-term impact of its activities. In addition, the AIMEEPA will adopt criteria for the monitoring and utilization of indicators for measuring trends as essential tools in evaluating its work.
     
  • Education, The AIMEEPA education network aspires to advance the vision of sustainable development within ME society. As such, the network will promote ecological, social-cultural, economic, and inter-generational values of sustainable development as pillars of its educational philosophy.
 
 
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