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Geneva A workshop on transboundary water management in Central Asia is being organized from 13 to 15 October 2010 in Almaty to help tackle some of the problems causing tensions between different uses and users of water by providing an accurate picture of the state of shared water resources in…
UNECE completes update of its Gender Statistics Database
Geneva The Statistical Division completed the 2010 updates of its on-line database on gender statistics. The biannual updating of the database is carried out in collaboration with national experts on gender statistics who are requested to answer a questionnaire. On many indicators, data are…
Outcome of the 29th meeting of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
Geneva he twenty-ninth meeting of the Compliance Committee of the UNECE Aarhus Convention took place in Geneva from 21 to 24 September 2010. The main outcomes of the meeting were as follows: The Committee discussed the substance of communication ACCC/C/2009/44 alleging non-…
UNECE/WHO (Europe) workshop promotes cycling
and walking in cities
Geneva Good reasons to walk and cycle to work, for shopping and leisure will be highlighted in a workshop to be held in the Black Sea port city of Batumi (Georgia) on 30 September and 1 October 2010. The workshop will bring together more than 60 experts across the three sectors, transport,…
Towards a UNECE-wide policy framework on affordable, healthy and ecological housing
Geneva Urban areas in the UNECE region are increasingly facing challenges of ensuring access to affordable housing and improving energy efficiency and environmental soundness of dwellings. Housing shortages are experienced in many countries in the region; carbon footprints from dwellings…
UNECE launches the National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resource Management in Georgia
Geneva The UNECE-led National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Georgia was officially initiated on 14-17 September 2010 in Tbilisi. Over these four days, the representative of the UNECE Water Convention Secretariat held a series of meetings with representatives of…
International energy efficiency forum.
Geneva The International Energy Efficiency Forum will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan on 28-30 September 2010. The Forum will be held in parallel to the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development for Asia and the Pacific and is organized jointly by the Government of Kazakhstan, the…
Geneva The substantial progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the pan-European region, and especially in countries with transition economies, risks to be interrupted or even reversed with the surge of the economic and financial crisis finds a new report,…
UNECE/FIBA road safety campaign gains momentum as 2010 FIBA World Championship enters final rounds
Geneva The information campaign on road safety launched by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) gains momentum as the Basketball World Championship 2010 enters its final rounds. The campaign carries the motto “…
UNECE works on standard for sound device to equip silent vehicles
Geneva On 7 September 2010, the Working Party on Noise (GRB), a subsidiary body of the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29), will host a live demonstration of sound devices that could equip “silent cars”. “Silent cars” are electric and hybrid vehicles that do…
La Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Europe (CEE-ONU) et la Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball (FIBA) ont annoncé aujourd'hui le lancement d’une nouvelle campagne d'information sur la sécurité routière à l'occasion du Championnat du monde de basket-ball FIBA 2010, qui…
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) today launch a new information campaign on road safety to coincide with the Basketball World Championship 2010, which will be held in Turkey from 28 August to 12 September. The…
Женева Сегодня в Москве открылся международный учебный курс для должностных лиц высокого уровня и экспертов из Центральной Азии. В течение недели делегации из Казахстана, Кыргызстана, Таджикистана, Туркменистана и Узбекистана будут иметь возможность ознакомиться с опытом…
Central Asian experts undertake training in Moscow under UNECE project on dam safety
Geneva An international training course for high-level officials and experts from Central Asia opened today in Moscow. In a week-long training, delegations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will have the opportunity to find out about the experience of…
Экономический кризис привел к самому низкому объему лесозаготовок в регионе ЕЭК ООН в истории
Женева Общее потребление лесо-бумажных товаров в регионе ЕЭК ООН упало на 11.6% в 2009 г., что стало самым резким годовым спадом со времен нефтяного кризиса 1970-х годов, согласно Годовому обзору рынка лесной продукции ЕЭК ООН/ФАО, опубликованному сегодня (график 1).…
Geneva La consommation de bois et de papier a chuté de 11,6% dans la région de la CEE-ONU en 2009, la plus forte baisse annuelle depuis la crise pétrolière des années 1970, selon la Revue annuelle du marché des produits forestiers 2009-2010, publiée ce jour par la CEE-ONU/FAO (…
Economic crisis drives UNECE region wood harvest to an all-time low
Geneva The consumption of wood and paper products fell by 11.6% in the UNECE region in 2009, the largest year-on-year drop since the oil crisis of the 1970s, according to the UNECE/FAO’s Forest Products Annual Market Review 2009-2010 released today (graph 1).The main cause was of…
Geneva 28 July 2010 will mark an important milestone in international efforts aimed at improving the global situation in water supply and sanitation with the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution recognizing access to clean water and sanitation as a human right. The…
Raising awareness on the protection of intellectual property rights is key for development
Geneva Every year, the countries of the UNECE region spend billions of dollars financing public research, but struggle to translate these investments into innovation-driven economic growth, in part because universities and businesses don’t always understand how to protect and exploit the…
Исполнительный секретарь обсуждает укрепление сотрудничества в бассейне Аральского моря
Женева 16 июля в г. Алматы Ян Кубиш, Исполнительный секретарь ЕЭК ООН, посетил Исполнительный Комитет Международного Фонда спасения Арала (МФСА). Данный визит – это часть более широких усилий ЕЭК ООН, направленных на активную поддержку устойчивого развития в Центральной…