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Presidency:Paris - Île-de-France

Vice-Presidency:Toronto

Since the 1992 Earth Summit, local authorities have progressively assumed their responsibilities in the challenge of sustainable development. This has crystallized into the implementation of numerous Local Agendas 21. However, Local Agendas 21 have still to take fully into account the complexity of territories, in particular in metropolitan areas that often run into conflict with the administrative limits of the cities.

The effective and long-lasting sustainability of the metropolises necessarily involves greater coordination between the municipalities concerned and, often, providing more powers in the area of the environment to regional and/or metropolitan institution

The commission aims to analyze different models of urbanization in metropolitan regions in order to identify the elements that threaten or favor their sustainable development.

The commission has set the following objectives:

-Develop the Ecological Regions concept and the idea of metropolitan reserves of the biosphere from a global reflection, seeking collaboration with Unesco (MAB Program and University of Colombia/CUBES).

-Hold practical training seminars on interregional sustainabletourism policies.

-Hold practical training seminars on the maintenance and development of peri-urban agriculture