IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation

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: The World Conservation Union was founded in 1948 and currently includes 82 States, 111 government agencies, 836 NGOs, 34 affiliates and more than 10,000 scientists and experts from 141 countries. The Union is the major global environment organisation and seeks to develop programmes and strategies to achieve sustainable development. In the General Assembly of 1994 in Buenos Aires, IUCN decided to create a cooperation Centre and a programme for action in the Mediterranean region. Since then its members have worked together to define the programme. The signature of a memorandum of understanding between IUCN, the Consejeria de Medio Ambiente of the Junta de Andalucia and the Spanish Ministry for the Environment made it possible to host this office in Malaga, with a guaranteed budget for 5 years, in collaboration with other Mediterranean members and partners.