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COP 16 CANCUN 2010 |
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Paris, 15 September 2010 |
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 The International Union of Architects was once again very present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, that opened in Cancun, Mexico, on 29 November 2010.Louise Cox, UIA President, accompanied by UIA Vice-Presidents Mauricio Rivero Borrell, Patricia Emmett, Albert Dubler and Kazuo Iwamura, led a delegation of architects who expressed the profession’s will to contribute to the respect of the global environment through sustainable by design architecture. Over two hundred architects gathered to walk through the “Climate Change Village”, a space for dialogue open to non gouvernemental organisations, after which Louise Cox officially signed the Cancun Communication, on behalf of the UIA and the architects of the world. This text, directed towards government authorities, is part of the Sustainable by Design Strategy launched by the UIA in Copenhagen, in December 2009, on the occasion of the previous United Nations Conference, COP 15. A two-day forum, organised by the Federation of Architects’ Colleges of the Republic of Mexico (FCARM) brought together international experts and eminent UIA personalities including Sara Topelson de Grinberg and Vassilis Sgoutas, UIA Past Presidents, Young-Jip Choi, President of the UIA Korean Section, Fanuel Motsepe, President of the UIA South African Section, Ashvinkumar Kantilal, President of UIA Singapore Section, Nikos Fintikakis, Director of the UIA Renewable Energies Work Programme, Éric Noir Director of the UIA regional Programme Architecture for a sustainable future.
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LOUISE COX THANKS TO THE MEXICAN ARCHITECTS
The UIA Member Section in Mexico – the Colleges Federation of the Architects of the Republic of Mexico, gave a very strong support to UIA participation in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP 16, in Cancun.
I would like to express my gratitude to the Mexican architects for their help, the FCARM President and Past President, Adrian Alfonso Palafox Garcia and Lizandro de la Garza Villareal. Thanks to Antonio Fuentes Flores who led the Editorial Committee of the UIA Cancun Communication, to Luis Enrique Lopez Cardiel who coordinated the UIA Cancun Open Forum and of course the UIA First Vice-President Mauricio Rivero Borrell. Thanks to the Mexican Republic Association of Architecture Schools, ASINEA for organising the students’ workshop and to all the architecture students who participated.
I would also like to thank all the architects worldwide and the UIA Member Sections who are involved and support the UIA Sustainable by Design Strategy. We still need your help in answering the UIA questionnaire so that we have a very positive message for Tokyo.
Louise Cox AM
UIA President
