Memorandum of Cooperation between FIM and UNEP A Memorandum of Cooperation between the FIM and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was signed last Friday at the Auditorium of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland), during the Global Forum for Sport and Environment which gathered together more than 150 participants from international sport organizations, NGOs and sport and environment stakeholders. Various personalities of the United Nations and the Olympic Committee were present, such as Messrs Adolf Ogi, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace and former President of the Swiss Confederation; Pal Schmitt, Chairman IOC Commission for Sport and Environment; Eric Falt, Director of the Division of Communications and Public Information of UNEP; Tatsuo Okada, Executive Director of Global Sports Alliance, co-organiser with UNEP of this meeting, and, for the FIM, President Vito Ippolito; CEO Guy Maitre; Sports Director Ignacio Verneda and International Environment Commission President Giancarlo Pasini. FIM President Vito Ippolito 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. A collaboration between the FIM and UNEP will also be established in order to promote and support the monitoring of environmental programmes in the preparation and staging of FIM events. The FIM also made a presentation of its Environmental Code and its current work in favour of the protection of environment in the motorcycling sport. Just after the FIM presentation, the FIM Environmental Award was given by FIM President Vito Ippolito and CIE President Giancarlo Pasini to the representatives of the Auto-Moto Club du Sanetsch (Switzerland), Messrs. David Luyet (President of the 2006 Snowcross organising committee), Blaise Anthoine and Yves Biselx, organizer of the Snowcross World Championship round in Veysonnaz last January.