Memorandum of Cooperation between FIM and UNEP The Memorandum of Cooperation between the FIM and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) signed in December 2006, was extended for two more years last Sunday at the Congress Center in Alicante (Spain), during the Global Forum for Sport and Environment which gathered together more than 100 participants from international sport organizations, NGOs and sport and environment stakeholders. Various important personalities were present, such as Messrs Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Satinder Bindra, Director of the Division of Communications and Public Information of UNEP; Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO Volvo group; Tatsuo Okada, Executive Director of Global Sports Alliance, co-organiser with UNEP of this meeting, and, for the FIM, Deputy President Jorge Cabezas and International Environment Commission President Giancarlo Pasini. FIM Deputy President Jorge Cabezas and the Executive Director of UNEP Achim Steiner, signed this memorandum whose objective is to provide a framework to cooperate and support aiming at reducing the environmental impact of motorcycle events. The collaboration between the FIM and UNEP will continue in order to promote and support the monitoring of environmental programmes in the preparation and staging of FIM events.