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Recommendation 47 outlines measures to mitigate the adverse impact of a pandemic such as COVID-19 on trade flows. Such pandemics have revealed the challenges of facing a health crisis and its impact on society and economies which could potentially leave lasting scars on the global economy. Download: 
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Since 2010, the UNECE has been undertaking demand-driven national studies of regulatory and procedural barriers to trade, with a view to: helping countries achieve greater regional and global economic integration; informing donors as to where assistance might be required; and, supporting policy discussions within the Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and Standards (previously, the
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Transport affects social, economic and environmental sustainability. Transport links markets and individuals, making regions more competitive and promoting individuals’ social and economic development.The transport system provides the individual with access to basic social services, such as health, food, education, employment and recreational activities. This requires the transport system to be
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This is the full report of the 2018 Vienna Conference on Sustainable Housing "Promoting access to adequate, affordable and decent housing for all through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the New urban Agenda and Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing", organized by UNECE and the City of Vienna on 12 and 13 April 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
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This publication is part of a project financed under the Fourth Tranche of the United Nations Development Account. The project, entitled "Interregional partnership for promoting trade as an engine of growth through knowledge management and information and communication technologies", is carried out jointly by the five regional commissions of the United Nations.The Fourth Tranche of the UN
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A collection of papers on various aspects of inland transport security written by distinguished experts from public and private sector organizations and compiled jointly by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the Transport Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).An
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Ministers and Heads of Delegation from the member States of the United Nations  Economic  Commission  for  Europe  (UNECE)  met at the seventy-eighth session of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management to discuss  the  challenges  and opportunities of sustainable housing in liveable cities and sustainable human settlements, and to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Committee. The
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Resilience to disasters for sustainable development (ECE/INF/NONE/2015/2/Rev.1) – revised in October 2019All the countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, including the most developed, are vulnerable to disasters. As one example, in 2019, the June and July heatwaves in
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Pathways to Sustainable Energy – Accelerating Energy Transition in the UNECE RegionIn September 2015 countries agreed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that comprises seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Attainment of the goals depends directly or indirectly on the availability of
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The Guidance Document on Integrated Sustainable Nitrogen Management was prepared by the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen. The purpose of the document is to mobilize Parties’ efforts to control pollution from agricultural sources in the context of the wider nitrogen cycle in an integrated manner harvesting multiple co-benefits of improved nitrogen management. The document is in particular aimed to
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This brochure (ECE/TRADE/415) provides information about the resources available, free of charge, from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) that can be used to support Aid-for-Trade projects. The resources include international conventions, publications, standards and training materials, and are available to
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides an overview of how cities can use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also maps the case studies to the various international agreements as well as the SDGs.
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The scope of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing is to improve sustainability of housing in the ECE region through effective policies and actions at all levels, supported by international cooperation, in order to contribute to sustainable development in the region. English
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides cities with a methodology on how to collect data or information from key performance indicators (KPIs) for smart sustainable cities (SSC). This set of KPIs for SSC were developed to establish the criteria to evaluate ICT's contributions in making cities smarter and
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The purpose of this series of trade and investment guides is to assist economies in transition, as well as economic actors in other countries, to become familiar with best practices in the areas of trade, investment and related legal and commercial practices. Symbol No. ECE/TRADE/249     Sale N°. E.99.II.E.39     ISBN 92-1-116739-6 
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Since its independence in 1991, Armenia has been making significant strides towards innovation-led sustainable development. Despite the hurdles Armenia has faced, including regional instability and the global COVID-19 pandemic, the country has managed to maintain a competitive information and communication technology (ICT) sector while fostering an energetic entrepreneurial scene. The success of
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Since independence, Moldova has navigated the challenging transition to a market economy while achieving significant, albeit volatile, economic growth, reduced poverty levels and the status of a lower-middle-income economy. However, productivity growth has declined as original drivers of structural change in the early post-independence era have run out of steam. Moldova’s commitments under the
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Symbol No. ECE/TRADE/342     Sales # E.06.II.E.10     ISBN 978-92-1-116944-7 – US$ 25      more details: [email protected]
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eTIR: Towards Paperless Cross-border TradeThis study is a joint effort by UNECE, ESCAP and IRU
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This report reviews the situation and trends in progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of 49 selected indicators under each of the 17 SDGs. Indicators were selected based on their relevance to the UNECE region and availability of data. For the most part, the report relies on the data available in the United Nations Global SDG Database as of 20 December 2019.