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Geneva The UNECE has released a new and improved version of its online database. It provides high-quality data on Europe, Central Asia and North America. The “Country Overviews” section offers around 50 key economic, social and transport indicators for each UNECE member country. Users can…
Geneva Innovation is a key driver of growth, competitiveness, and prosperity in the modern economy. Therefore, governments are in constant search of possible policy actions aimed at stimulating innovation activity, enhancing the innovative capacity of the economy and improving the efficiency…
Geneva Reducing economic barriers to access to safe drinking-water is one of the key objectives of the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health, which starts today in Bucharest, Romania. Representatives from 34 European countries, including both Parties and non-…
Continuation of TIR system secured
Geneva On Friday 19 November 2010, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) acting on behalf of the 68 Contracting Parties to the TIR Convention, and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) signed an agreement which authorizes IRU to print and distribute TIR Carnets…
UNECE calls for enhanced disaster preparedness in the housing sector
Geneva “It is crucial to develop effective standards and regulations and to ensure a proper institutional framework for disaster preparedness and prevention in Azerbaijan and other countries located in disaster-prone areas”, said Mr. Elkhan Asadov, Deputy Head of the Construction Control…
Geneva UNECE released yesterday in Baku its Country Profile on the Housing Sector of Azerbaijan. In opening remarks at the launch event held in Baku, Mr. Marco Keiner, Director of the UNECE Environment, Housing and Land Management Division, addressed some of the trends in the housing sector…
Geneva UNECE’s annual Energy Week will be held from 22 to 26 November 2010 at Palais des Nations in Geneva. It will include the 19th Session of the Committee on Sustainable Energy (24-26 November), featuring an Energy Security Dialogue: Gas Resources and International Energy…
Preparing an action plan on the forest sector for a green economy
Geneva Within the UNECE region, three countries alone—Russia, Canada and the United States— account for 35% of the world’s forest coverage. Together with the remaining countries in the region, this figure rises to 41%. Since 1990, protected forests in the UNECE region have increased by…
Geneva Road safety performance in the 12 members of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation Organization (BSEC) is the subject of the “UNECE-BSEC Conference on Improving Road Safety in the BSEC Region” that opened today in Ioannina, Greece. The Conference held under the Greek Chairmanship-in…
UNECE calls for enhanced Road and Rail Transport Infrastructure
Geneva Vienna, 18 November 2010 – Ministers, international officials, policy makers and experts, including representatives of railway and transport authorities of Central Asian countries, discussed solutions for financing road and rail infrastructures in the wake of the financial crisis in an…
Geneva The Committee on Environmental Policy met in Geneva from 2 to 5 November 2010 to advance the preparations for the seventh “Environment for Europe” (EfE) Ministerial Conference, which will bring together ministers and representatives of civil society and business in Astana (Kazakhstan…
Conference on "Financing development of road and rail transport infrastructures"
Geneva UNECE organizes a conference on "Financing development of road and rail transport infrastructures", with the support of the OSCE/Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, on 17 November 2010 in Vienna.The conference, originally organised for…
UNECE issues Recommendation on Establishing a legal framework for international trade Single Window
Geneva The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) issued on 8 October 2010 the second in a suite of recommendations on creating a “Single Window” facility for international trade. Recommendation 35 deals with “Establishing a legal framework for the Single Window”. Developed…
Completion of the first Espoo Convention procedure in Belarus
Geneva The full procedure of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a transboundary context according to the Espoo Convention has been applied for the first time in Belarus. The projected Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Neman River, located 11 kilometers from the Lithuanian-Belarusian…
Geneva Many UNECE countries with emerging market economies have a well-established tradition in academic and applied research. However, the commercialization of the results of research and development (R&D), which is pivotal for the competitiveness of the modern economy, often faces…
UNECE Timber Committee forecasts rebound in wood and paper products markets in 2010 and 2011
Geneva During annual Market Discussions at the UNECE Timber Committee on 11-12 October in Geneva, experts forecast an upturn in wood and paper products markets (consumption, production and trade) in 2010 and 2011 for the UNECE region. Forest products markets are rebounding from a…
Открывшийся сегодня в г. Алматы, Казахстан, двухдневный национальный семинар «Конвенция ЕЭК ООН по трансграничным водам и ее роль в международном праве» призван обсудить роль Конвенции об охране и использовании трансграничных водотоков и международных озер в содействии трансграничному…
Geneva The two-day national seminar on the “UNECE Water Convention and its role in international law” opened today in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to discuss the place of the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) in…
GenevaThe 2010 Economic Forum of the United Nations Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) on 18 and 19 October in Geneva will discuss how strengthened regional cooperation in Central Asia can contribute to the long-term stability and sustainable development of Afghanistan…
Azerbaijan Launches National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resources Management
Geneva Azerbaijan’s National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) was launched on 12 October 2010 in Baku. Representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economy, Public Health, Industry and Energy, as well as water companies, non-governmental organizations…