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Namibia posits benefits of Water Convention accession to manage its shared water resources
… Namibia shares all its perennial rivers with neighboring countries and is both a mid-stream and downstream country. Transboundary water cooperation is therefore crucial … with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Union. As part of its commitment to …
UNECE Subregional Innovation Policy Outlook launched in Moldova
… In a rapidly changing world economy, countries with economies in transition such as Moldova can … international organisations and civil society. The UNECE Sub-regional Innovation Policy Outlook is a pilot … as the results will feed into efforts to put the recently approved 2020-2023 National Program for Research and …
Ghana looks to simplify international trade procedures
… Ghana’s international trade accounted for 85% of GDP in 2015. However, in Ghana it still … transaction. As a result, some of the key issues that haunt traders are delayed customs clearance, poor … Facilitation Implementation Guide (TFIG), organized by UN/CEFACT and the Ghana Revenue Authority from 19-24 …
New ways of working call for new ways to measure work: UNECE-led statisticians investigate
… A team of expert labour statisticians is to be convened by UNECE for the Conference of European Statisticians, to … countries currently gather information on non-standard types of work, and whether they plan to do so in the future. …
… UNECE was established in 1947 to promote pan-European economic … the maintenance of peace”. Over seven decades, the work of UNECE has yielded significant results for the region and has …
International Women’s Day - DigitAll: Innovation and technology for gender equality
… year’s International Women’s Day, presents powerful opportunities for gender equality, and offers welcome hope at a … Development showed that the use of information and communication technology is the only target of SDG 5 (“ Achieve … empowerment programmes among other actions. Similarly, UNECE’s own Guidance on Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 …
UNECE joins global discussion on implementing environmental dimension of SDGs
… sustainability in each SDG. How the environmental community will work to achieve the SDGs will be the overarching theme of the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2), which will … Conference in Batumi, Georgia (8-10 June 2016), UNECE Executive Secretary Christian Friis Bach will …
… Breathing clean air is a necessity for everyone and decent air quality is a shared … if we work together. This is what Member States in the UNECE region realized 45 years ago, when they started … broad regional basis – the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. Almost half a century later, …
… their consequences, which can be far-reaching and transboundary. The cyanide spill in Baia Mare, Romania in 2000 … far-reaching effects in this case were felt in riparian countries, which suffered from polluted drinking water. … and industrial safety ” which was launched at the UNECE seminar on land-use planning and industrial safety held …
… annual investment requirements for infrastructure alone amount to $5-7 trillion globally. The means to address these … resources -international and domestic, public and private. UNECE and the Regional UN Development Group for Europe and …
Defining the urban agenda of the future
… these work sustainably? Just one month ahead of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban … Geneva next week. The HABITAT III regional report for the UNECE region , which is the input of the Pan-European Region …
Foresta2021 and the European Forest Week to discuss the future of forests
… forest ecosystems, non-wood forest products, career opportunities for forestry graduates, European cooperation to … programme here . Foresta2021 is the joint session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) …
… America and the Caribbean (the Escazú Agreement), developed under the auspices of the Economic Commission for Latin … and the Caribbean (ECLAC), will open for signature by countries of the region on Thursday, 27 September 2018, at … the protection of human rights in environmental matters. UNECE sends its greetings to ECLAC and to the governments and …
UNECE adapts statistical support to countries in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
… to respond to ever-changing demands is a core component of UNECE statistical work, linked directly to several of the … made impossible since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNECE and its partners have had to rethink how best to …
UNECE standards help Namibia export grapes to Europe
… Last December, for the first time ever, containers with grapes left the port of Lüderitz, Namibia, bound for Europe - and they all complied with the quality requirements set out in UNECE’s agricultural standards. Checked by the recently …
Experts assess options to address results of Gothenburg Protocol review
… The results of the recent review report , which assessed the effectiveness of … Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone ( Gothenburg Protocol ) under the UNECE … rate per ton of transported goods compared to other types of transport, shipping transport was still responsible …
UNECE becomes one of the Partners of the World Bank’s PPP Knowledge Lab
… Governments, civil society, the private sector, the United Nations system and other actors. Public-private … on PPPs covers, for example, the best practices surrounding the legal and regulatory frameworks. UNECE’s PPP Programme aims to become a global leader within …
UNECE supports Belarus in promoting innovation for sustainable development
… UNECE is assisting Belarus to better align its innovation … on promoting innovation as a way to implement the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda. A Team of experts under the guidance of UNECE undertook a fact-finding mission in Minsk on 14-18 March …
Addressing challenges faced by Landlocked Developing Countries in Europe and Asia
… Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face many complex challenges. Due to their … region hosts about 1/3 of the world’s landlocked countries, including some of the largest landlocked countries … Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Uzbekistan) are UNECE countries, with only Afghanistan, Bhutan, Lao PDR, …
Countries are committing to implementation of the United Nations Resource Management System
… and use of natural resources. Today's resource patterns are unsustainable in terms of their environmental and societal … of critical raw materials, will determine the capacity of countries to attain the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable … for resource industries," said Ms. Olga Algayerova. UNECE has proposed a 5-point plan that integrates: …