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Advanced SearchUNECE endorses Smart Sustainable Cities Indicators to improve performance of cities
Over 73% of the population in the UNECE region lives in cities. By 2050, this figure is estimated to rise up to 85%. Cities are engines of economic growth so development of countries depends on how their cities will develop in the future. At the same time, the expanding…
Safety at industrial facilities across 40 countries in Europe will be enhanced with the inclusion of 13 additional categories of hazardous substances and 32 more chemicals with serious health and environmental effects within the scope of the UNECE Convention on the…
International recommendations, standards and tools have a crucial role to play in the effective implementation of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). This was the key message agreed by international experts at an event organized by…
UNECE signs United Nations Development Cooperation Strategy of Turkey for 2016-2020
UNECE has committed today to strengthening its support to Turkey’s development cooperation efforts over the next five years by signing the United Nations Development Cooperation of Turkey (UNDCS) for 2016 – 2020.
UNDCS of Turkey is based on the following strategic…
Adaptation to climate change and waste management are some of the most pressing environmental challenges for Serbia. These are the main findings of the third Environmental Performance Review (EPR) of Serbia by UNECE, which were presented to the Serbian environmental…
Three hundred and fifty participants from more than 74 countries gathered in Budapest from 17 to 19 November 2015 for the seventh session of the Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes…
Согласование конкурирующих и иногда противоречивых целей водного, энергетического и продовольственного секторов, а также природоохранной деятельности сопряжено с трудностями даже на национальном уровне, и сложность проблемы существенно возрастает, когда речь идет о…
Reconciling the competing and sometimes incompatible objectives of the water, energy and food sectors and environmental protection is fraught with difficulties even at the national level, but the complexity increases substantially in transboundary basins where impacts from sectoral activities…
UNECE signs United Nations Partnership Framework for Development for 2016-2020 with Georgia
UNECE and the United Nations Country Team announced today that they will strengthen their support to Georgia’s development efforts over the next five years. This will be achieved through the implementation of a United Nations Partnership Framework for Development (UNPFD…
Despite comprising over 300 million inhabitants and representing 4.9% of the world’s GDP 17 UNECE countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia represented only 0.5% or USD 0.9 billion of global renewable energy investment in 2014. Attracting…
Новый инструмент для содействия оценке выгод трансграничного водного сотрудничества
Трансграничные бассейны играют важную роль во многих сферах деятельности человека: их водные ресурсы удовлетворяют питьевые и хозяйственно-бытовые нужды более четверти населения мира, служат источником для ирригации сельскохозяйственных земель и гидроэнергетики, а также…
Les bassins transfrontières offrent de nombreux services, entre autres de l'eau potable et à des fins domestiques pour plus d'un quart de la population mondiale, contribuent à l'agriculture irriguée et à la production d'hydroélectricité, et jouent également un rôle…
New tool to facilitate the assessment of the benefits of transboundary water cooperation
Transboundary basins provide numerous services; including drinking and domestic water for over a quarter of the world’s population, support irrigation agriculture and hydropower generation, and play a crucial role in preserving ecosystems and the services they provide.…
Соглашения с ЕЭК ООН подготавливают почву для реформ водного сектора в Грузии и в Республике Молдова
Сегодня Исполнительный секретарь ЕЭК ООН, г-н Кристиан Фриис Бах, подписал меморандумы о взаимопонимании с представителями Грузии и Республики Молдова по предоставляемой ЕЭК ООН поддержке в развитии политических мер в водном секторе в этих странах в рамках Национальных…
Agreements with UNECE lay ground for water sector reforms in Georgia and the Republic of Moldova
Today UNECE Executive Secretary Christian Friis Bach signed memorandums of understanding with representatives of Georgia and the Republic of Moldova regarding UNECE support for the development of water policies in those countries, in the framework of the European Union…
The Economic Forum of the UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) concluded that strengthened sub-regional cooperation is an important precondition for the achievement of several of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The…
UNECE supports Serbia in developing sustainable housing strategy
Adequate housing is scarce in Serbia, where most of the multi-apartment buildings are dilapidated. The continuous decline in the quality of housing drives down the value of real estate and increases risks of injuries and health problems. Energy and water infrastructure…
Harmonizing processes and data for international trade across different modes of transport
Harmonizing processes and data for use across the different modes of transport in international trade would help goods move faster and cheaper. Global experts from the trade and transport sectors converged in Marseille this week to streamline related supply chain…
Countries pledge to keep climate change on forest agenda
Thirty-nine countries from Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia, the Caucasus and North America pledged this week to continue their efforts to build climate change into national forest programmes, plans and strategies.
The countries…
Markets show signs of rising consumption for some forest products, though the picture is far from consistent In Europe and North America, forest products consumption is strongly related to construction. The hoped-for recovery from the trough of the 2008 global financial…