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Natural catastrophe beyond human capacity such as Arctic glaciers being melted, sea level rising, desertification being accelerated, flood, drought, earthquake, and tsunamis.

They are the warnings that human lives cannot be sustained on the Earth without efforts for solutions responding to environmental issues.
At the same time, they are the strong message that we must find ways for sustainable use of environmental resources.

The World Local Government Summit Forum having been held in Jeju during the IUCN World Conservation Congress Jeju 2012, emphasized that the roles and actions of the world’s local governments have become more important than any other times, to come up with the solutions responding to environmental issues and for conservation of the environment. Accordingly, the world’s local governments strongly supported the establishment Cyber Environment Network of World Local Governments.

The Cyber Environment Network of World Local Governments (ENCYNET) shall operate as a future-oriented governance system for exchange of information and technologies on the environment. The ENCYNET shall also operate as an environmental knowledge portal providing the functions for the world world local governments, to endeavor collaborative efforts for the solutions to global environmental issues; to cooperate for sustainable development; to exchange environmental policies; and to act as an advisory body.