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In the framework of a United Nations Programme of Cooperation for Sustainable Development, UNECE will provide technical assistance to Albania in a variety of areas including housing and urban development and energy efficiency. This will also include increasing the…
The 21st Century will be the century of wood
How will the world look 50 years from now? Visions of life in the future often show shiny cityscapes of glass and steel. Cities with tall buildings of flowing shapes. It would seem that wood is not what we associate with our future yet “the 21st Century will be seen as…
At the closing session of the Seventh International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development, the delegates called on the governments and international organizations to take urgent steps for transformation of energy systems. There is a gap between current actions taken…
UNECE updates its Best Practice Guidance for Effective Methane Drainage and Use in Coal Mines
The coal industry, national governments, trade unions, and worker safety advocates are concerned with the frequency and severity of methane explosions in coal mines, especially in emerging economies. No mine, even in the most developed countries, is free from safety risks…
Mayors of global cities commit to cooperate on the regional implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Today 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, almost three quarters of the world’s population will live in urban areas – this will be the Century of the City. The New Urban Agenda to be adopted by Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on…
UNECE region accounts for 87% of the world’s certified forest area
The certified forest area coverage extended across 11% of global forests in 2015. The UNECE region, with about 40% (1.6 billion hectares) of the global forest estate, accounted for 87% of the total global certified forest area (graph 1). Of the global certified forest…
UNECE advises Belarus on promoting innovation for sustainable development
During the last five years, Belarus has undertaken important measures to upgrade its national innovation system. These include legislative changes to encourage the commercialization of intellectual property, the centralisation of its innovation funds, and the inclusion…
UNFC is now applicable to geothermal energy resources
Geothermal energy could play a significant role in ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, but production today is only at 7% of the estimated global potential. Geothermal energy exists in almost 90 countries, but only 24 of them…
Оценка мировых запасов нефти и газа будет значительно улучшена с внедрением Связующего документа, позволит сопоставить запасы и ресурсы нефти и горючих газов классификации Российской Федерации с категориями и классами Рамочной Классификации Ископаемых Энергетических и…
The assessment of global resources of oil and gas will be greatly improved with the implementation of a Bridging Document that relates the reserves and resources in the Oil and Combustible Gas of the Russian Federation Classification to the categories and classes of the…
Les autorités tunisiennes discutent une possible adhésion à la Convention sur l'eau
Les responsables tunisiens ont discuté d'une éventuelle adhésion à la Convention sur la protection et l'utilisation des cours d'eau transfrontières et des lacs internationaux (Convention sur l'eau) de la UNECE au cours de l'atelier national « Les avantages de la…
Tunisian authorities discuss a possible accession to the Water Convention
Tunisian officials discussed the country’s possible accession to the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) during a national workshop "Benefits of cooperation and the UNECE Water…
630,000 Moldovan citizens (17% percent of the population of the Republic of Moldova) do not enjoy access to improved water supply systems and around one million citizens (28% of the population) do not have access to improved sanitation systems. In order to remedy this…
UNECE and Commonwealth of Independent States tighten cooperation on industrial safety
Industrial safety is a matter of serious concern for countries with economies in transition, which often face challenges in protecting lives and the health of people and the environment from industrial accidents. To assist its member States in coordinating their efforts…
The 2008 global financial and economic crisis underscored the vital role that stable and transparent housing markets play in a country’s economy. As a result of the crisis, some countries have experienced disturbing imbalances in their housing markets with foreclosures,…
UNECE calls for active strategies to meet older migrants’ economic, social and healthcare needs
In recent decades, the number of international migrants globally has grown faster than the world’s population. While the current refugee crisis has drawn the focus of attention to newly arriving asylum seekers, the UNECE region has long been a destination for migrants.…
France joins the Aarhus Convention’s amendment on genetically modified organisms
On 11 July 2016, France approved the amendment on genetically modified organisms (GMO amendment) to the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention), raising the…
China has taken a key step towards the development of international economic corridors with its regional trading partners and the rest of the world with the accession to the United Nations TIR Convention.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting in his…
La Chine a fait un pas important vers le développement de corridors économiques internationaux, aussi bien avec ses partenaires commerciaux régionaux qu’avec le reste du monde, en accédant à la Convention TIR des Nations Unies.
Le Secrétaire…
More partners to join the International Centre of Excellence on Coal Mine Methane
The capture and use of methane from coal mines is one of the effective near-term options to tackle climate change. In October 2015 UNECE and Poland signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing an International Centre of Excellence on Coal Mine Methane that would…