Iran, Japan Sign MoU on Environmental Cooperation
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian vice-president and Japan’s ministry of environment inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve Tehran-Tokyo cooperation on the environmental issues.
Head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization (IEPO) Masoumeh Ebtekar and the Japanese minister of the environment, Nobuteru Ishihara, signed the memorandum in Japan’s capital of Tokyo on Wednesday.
During the meeting, the Iranian official, who is also a vice-president, expressed the hope that the agreement would not be confined to Tehran-Tokyo mutual cooperation alone, but it would also work for the betterment of the environment across the region and in the entire world.
Ebtekar also noted that Japan has so far completed a series of successful projects in Iran as part of environmental cooperation.
In November last year, an Iranian official unveiled plans on the revival of the country’s Anzali lagoon in cooperation with a group of Japanese ecologists.
Anzali is one of the few Iranian wetlands which have been registered as an international wetland in the 1975 Ramsar Convention. Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems; however, the Anzali wetland has also been the victim of neglect, putting it in danger of grave ecological changes.
