On the Mission of SPREP
china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Xuan Xuan, March 2, 2012 Adjust font size:
Host: This is China Development Gateway. I am Zhang Yunyun. Today we are very glad to have the opportunity to talk with David Sheppard, director general of SPREP – that is the Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Good afternoon, Mr. Sheppard. Welcome to our interviews!
David Sheppard: Good afternoon!
Host: You are the Director General of SPREP. Could you please give us a brief introduction about your organization? What do you do?
David Sheppard: Certainly. We are called SPREP, the Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Programme. We are the regional agency working in the region for the protection and management of the environment. We work on behalf of our member governments – the 21 island countries and territories – to work with them to better address environmental issues. In our region, environment is a central element of sustainable development, so we work with countries to better manage the environment, to ensure the development opportunities for now and for the future.
