Submit your draft resolutions!
The IMCG General Assembly in South Africa 2004 will again discuss and adopt resolutions. To streamline the procedure, IMCG members are requested to submit their draft resolution timely, i.e. as soon as possible, to the IMCG secretariat. This will enable to circulate the draft resolutions among the Main Board, to publish the necessary background information in the IMCG Newsletters of May and July 2004, and to put the drafts on our website so that everybody can send reactions (to the IMCG Secretariat).
Draft resolutions should identify the apparatus and bodies to which the resolution has to be directed or sent. Examples (phrasing and content) of resolutions can be found on the IMCG website (www.imcg.net/docum/france/frres.htm).
Resolutions are not always taken at heart by the governments they are addressed to. The Swedish government has yet to acknowledge receipt of the Resolution drawn up in France for example. Yet resolutions remain a strong tool in influencing government policies, the more so with the increasing strength of IMCG on the global peatland front.
Below you can find a draft resolution for Germany.