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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Council of Presidents of the Environment
Trinidad and Tobago
Email: info@cope.org.tt
Website: www.cope.org.tt
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
COPE is grouping of autonomous, not-for-profit, non-government organizations and community based organizations
representing specialist interests in Environmental Concerns. In 1989, COPE met
and created a forum to:
i) Lobby in areas of national concern to the environmental movement.
ii) Facilitate external relations, and also liaison between environmental NGOs, CBOs and the Government
of Trinidad and Tobago, and
iii) Support the efforts of the local environmental movement.
At the same time it was recognized that none of these purposes or activities of the Council of Presidents
of the Environment (COPE) would exclude the right of separate action by its member NGOs
and CBOs. Recognizing that the COPE experience to date has shown that clarity of purpose and simplicity
of form would serve our objectives better than a rigidity of structure, this Charter is intended
to support the foregoing and following objectives and to provide rules for operation.
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