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Representatives from governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, academia and the United Nations will meet in Istanbul on 6-8 November 2013 to discuss the contribution of the Europe and Central Asia region to the…
Rovaniemi, Lapland’s capital, nominated “Official city of the 2013 European Forest Week”
The Finnish capital of Lapland, Rovaniemi, “home of Santa Claus”, was nominated “official city of the 2013 European Forest Week” on 4 November. It was selected by the 15 partners who launched the European Forest Week earlier this year,…
Workshop highlights benefits of UNECE Water Convention for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
On 1 November 2013, in Skopje, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia organized a workshop on the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary…
UNFC is Key to Sustainable Development in India
With 2.4 per cent of the world’s habitable land and 17 per cent of the world’s population, India must adopt and develop best practices in its extractive activities, if it is to meet urgent needs for sustainable economic development. A key outcome of the “National…
Innovation in the Public Sector – Benefitting Society and Supporting Economic Growth
Innovation is traditionally thought of as the province of the business sector, with the government responsible for creating a business climate friendly to innovators. However, public expenditure accounts for between a third and over half of Gross Domestic Product in…
UNECE convention offers policy response to tackle newly-declared-carcinogenic air pollution
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced on 17 October that it has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans.
After…
Планы ЕЭК ООН по поддержке водной политики одобрены Координационным советом в Кыргызстане
На десятом совещании, состоявшемся 18 октября 2013 года в Бишкеке, Координационный совет Национального диалога по политике (НДП) в сфере интегрированного управления водными ресурсами (ИУВР) в Кыргызстане одобрил приоритетные направления на будущее, предлагаемые для поддержки Европейской…
UNECE plans in support of water policy approved by Steering Committee in Kyrgyzstan
At its tenth meeting, held on 18 October 2013 in Bishkek, the Steering Committee of the National Policy Dialogue (NPD) on integrated water resources management (IWRM) in Kyrgyzstan approved proposed future priorities for support by the United…
Sixty-five years of UNECE/FAO cooperation in forest monitoring
Assessing the health and wealth of the natural capital has always gone hand in hand with planning for resource management and use. Since the creation of the United Nations, the Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organization have worked…
Iraq and Tunisia express interest in joining UNECE Water Convention
“We must make sure that water remains a catalyst for cooperation not conflict among communities and countries” stated United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the opening of the Budapest Water Summit on 8 October 2013, while underlining the role in this…
A global round table on access to information, public participation and access to justice regarding living modified organisms (LMOs) and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be held on 16 and 17 October 2013 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The…
UNECE launches a clearing house for information on water and health in the Republic of Moldova
The official opening of the Clearing House under the Protocol on Water and Health in the Republic of Moldova took place on 10 October 2013 in Chisinau on the occasion of the second Steering Committee meeting of a project led by the United Nations Economic Commission for…
Ministers adopt Strategy for Sustainable Housing 2014-2020 for the UNECE region
Meeting in Geneva, on Tuesday, 8 October, ministers and heads of agencies for housing, urban development and land administration from 55 countries adopted a regional Strategy for Sustainable Housing and Land Management for 2014 to 2020.
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According to a survey just released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the most important challenges faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia in the areas of housing and urban planning are:
- Inefficient use of energy in the housing…
The United Nations Development Group together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) today released their joint vision for the post-2015 development agenda in Europe and Central Asia , and argue that the region has a critical role to…
ЕЭК ООН помогает Армении установить целевые показатели по воде и здоровью
Десятое заседание Координационного совета Национального диалога по водной политике в области водных ресурсов Армении было проведено в Ереване в четверг 26 сентября 2013 года. На заседании экспертной группой был представлен проект…
UNECE helps Armenia to set targets on water and health
The tenth meeting of the Steering Committee of the Armenian National Policy Dialogue on water resources was held in Yerevan on Thursday, 26 September 2013. At the meeting, an expert group presented a draft baseline analysis of the Armenia’s health and environmental…
Сегодня в Женеве в рамках Конвенции по охране и использованию трансграничных водотоков и международных озер (Конвенция по трансграничным водам) Европейской экономической комиссии ООН (ЕЭК ООН) начал свою работу семинар, посвященный правовым и…
La Convention sur l’eau de la CEE-ONU organise un atelier sur les commissions de bassins versants
Un atelier sur les commissions de basins versants et autres organes communs pour la coopération en matière d’eaux transfrontières, c’est ouvert aujourd’hui à Genève, sous les auspices de la Convention sur la…
UNECE Water Convention holds global workshop for river basin commissions
A workshop about river basin commissions and other joint bodies for transboundary water cooperation, focusing on legal and institutional issues, opened today in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for…