IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

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The 2011 State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit distributed a Briefing Paper developed by CEM-North America & Caribbean that contained recommendations to U.S. environmental policy makers for restoring the long-term health of ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. Entitled Restoring the Ecological Health of the Gulf of Mexico: Attributes, Principles and Recommendations, the Briefing Paper was an output of the CEM-organized symposium in August 2011 focused on restoring the Gulf of Mexico after the Deep Horizon oil spill. Steve Edwards, regional chair for CEM, helped facilitate a breakout discussion at the Gulf Summit, hosted in Houston, Texas, from 5-8 December by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and attended by 400 leading environmental policy-makers from the U.S. and Mexico. Charlotte Moser, regional deputy chair for CEM, served on the Summit Planning Committee. CEM participation in the Gulf Summit was made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.

It will also:

*    Help us find other members with common interests,

*    Increase our awareness of activities in the region,

*    Promote collaboration amongst members where there is interest,

*    Allow us to link with colleagues beyond the CEM NA&C network.

We expect the yellow pages to grow and broadened with time. It will help us establish “communities of practice” initially based on the Commission’s Specialist Groups, which you may have cited when you joined the Commission. At this stage you are not required to join these specialist groups.