Inaugurating the First Seminar on Environmental Communication, organized by the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources, the owner, Juan José Guerra Abud, stressed the importance of opening these spaces to provide relevant information to the media and their once sector agencies establish this link allowing them to report clear and timely challenges of Mexico on the subject manner.
He noted that the media are a reflection of society and in this sense, «yes citizenship known government actions on the care and protection of the environment, they can be applied in a more precise and correct way, and even looking receive feedback, which is essential to strengthen these programs. »
Meanwhile, Armando Quintero Mateos, General Coordinator of Social Communication of the SEMARNAT, said that this seminar is the first effort the environmental sector aimed at journalists’ union and welcomed the strong participation and interest of journalists.
He said that in the coming days will feature presentations by members and senior officials of federal environmental sector such as: the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR); National Water Commission (CNA); National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP); Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA); Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), and Conabio (CONABIO).
Also participating in this lecture series, which began on February 9 and end on March 9, representatives of the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC); Security Agency, Energy and Environment (ASEA); the Secretaries of Management, Planning and Development SEMARNAT as guest speaker, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS).
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the SEMARNAT, the Undersecretary of Development and Environmental Regulation, Cuauhtémoc Fernández Ochoa; Management Assistant Secretary for Environmental Protection, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán; Calleja Roberto Ortega, Operational Coordinator of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, as well as Laura Espino Rubio, Director of the Technology Museum (MUTEC) of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
