OCEANS, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND IOCARIBE

Abstract

The theme of the oceans suddenly started to acquire relevance with the tsunamis which devastated the coasts of the Indian Ocean scarcely a few months ago. The Mexican Chemical Engineer Marco Polo Bernal Yarahuán, Mexico's representative to the Oceanographic Intergovernmental Commission for UNESCO - COI and President of IOCARIBE, the regional organization for the Caribbean and adjacent zones, puts forward established mechanisms from years long past to promote knowledge and preservation of the environment and costal.