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Advanced SearchUNECE and CETMO to strengthen cooperation to boost intermodal transport in Western Mediterranean
Efficient and interconnected transport corridors integrating all transport modes (so-called “intermodal transport”, smoothly integrating sea, rail, road and air) are key to facilitate commercial exchanges and movements of people in a safe, efficient and sustainable way,…
На фоне все более отчетливого глобального стремления к поддержке трансграничного водного сотрудничества во всем мире, более 15 стран за пределами панъевропейского региона заявили о своей заинтересованности ратифицировать Конвенцию по трансграничным водам. Новые…
As global momentum builds in support of transboundary water cooperation worldwide, more than 15 countries from outside the Pan-European region have announced their interest to ratify the Water Convention. These accessions can reinforce transboundary cooperation…
Un projet de règlement vise à prévenir les accidents mortels causés par les angles morts des camions
Les angles morts - c'est-à-dire les zones autour d'un véhicule que le conducteur ne peut pas voir entièrement en regardant par les fenêtres ou dans les rétroviseurs conventionnels - sont une cause importante d'accidents impliquant des camions. C'est…
Draft regulation will aim to reduce cyclist and pedestrian deaths caused by trucks´blind spots
Blind spots - those areas around a vehicle that the driver can't fully see by looking through windows or in conventional mirrors – are a significant cause of accidents involving lorries. This is especially the case when the truck is turning right (or left in countries that…
UNECE and UNISDR launch guidelines on water-related disasters and transboundary cooperation
The majority of disasters are water-related, either directly or indirectly. Over the past twenty years, there has been a sustained rise and frequency in the number of climate-related disasters such as floods and droughts.
When disasters take…
Member states reconfirm commitment to ICPD agenda at regional ICPD+25 conference in Geneva
UNECE member States reconfirmed their commitment to implementing the Programme of Action adopted at the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the ICPD Beyond 2014 Chair’s Summary at a regional review conference in Geneva on 1-2…
UNECE adopts resolution on the deployment of highly and fully automated vehicles in road traffic
The development and future deployment of automated vehicles is one of the leading issues that the car industry, the telecom and software industries, policy makers and regulators are facing today.
Automated vehicles have the potential to create…
Le développement et le déploiement futur des véhicules automatisés est l'un des enjeux majeurs auxquels l'industrie automobile, les industries des télécommunications et du logiciel, les décideurs politiques et les régulateurs sont confrontés aujourd'hui.
…UNECE updates condominium management guidelines in continued effort to ensure sustainable housing
The global financial crisis of 2008 led to more inequality in the UNECE region. The past two decades have witnessed a general trend towards increasing home ownership. According to the Habitat III Regional Report on Housing and Urban Development for the UNECE Region (2016…
The Secretary General of the Organization for International Economic Relations (OiER), Ms. Kari Aina Eik, and the Executive Secretary of the UNECE, Ms. Olga Algayerova, signed today a Memorandum of Understating (MoU) to establish a Geneva UN Charter Centre of Excellence…
New report highlights progress by Parties in the implementation of the Water Convention
Since its adoption over 25 years ago, the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) has supported transboundary water cooperation across the pan-European region. Through a newly introduced reporting…
Increased investments in individual capabilities and more efforts on ensuring human rights, including reproductive rights, and gender equality throughout the life course are needed to respond to the population dynamics affecting the broader European region. This is the…
UNECE publishes assessment methodology to reconcile competing interests in managing shared basins
Understanding the interactions between water, food, energy and water-related ecosystems in river basins can be vital in ensuring different and often competing needs are met in a coherent manner. This is even more important in transboundary basins, where identifying…
China bridges its mineral and petroleum resource classification systems to UNFC
The Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China and UNECE have collaborated on the development of bridging documents between China's resources and reserves classification system for minerals and petroleum and the United Nations Framework…
UNFC specifications on use of resources from waste to support the circular economy
Energy and mineral value chains usually involve the generation of large quantities of residues. These residues often end up as wastes and, if not properly managed threaten not only the environment but also the health and safety of the local populations. With energy and mineral production…
UNECE and Boston University to cooperate to accelerate the clean energy transition
The global transition to sustainable energy is among the major challenges of our time and is of cross-cutting importance to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly its Goal 7 which aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.…
Joint UNECE-UN ESCAP Press Release
Marking the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), high-level participants from the seven landlocked participating countries -…
United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund launches call for pilot project proposals
As efforts advance to fully operationalize the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund, launched in April 2018, targeted individual actions can help meet urgent needs to improve road safety on the ground.
In this context, a call to the Fund’s…
Municipal waste, rural water supply and sanitation and wastewater treatment are some of the most pressing environmental challenges in Albania. Tourism development, abandoned industrial sites and energy sector investments mean environmental risks but also represent…