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European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and related Installations (AGTC) provides the technical and legal framework for the development of efficient international intermodal and combined road/rail transport infrastructure and services in Europe. The AGTC determines
… Burgas (Giurgiu –) Ruse – Gorna Oriahovitza 23ANNEX I (29) Belarus* C–E 20 (Terespol –) Brest – Minsk – Orsha (– … Güterzentrum Wien Süd Villach Süd Azerbaijan Baku (Keshla) Belarus Brest Minsk Belgium Antwerpen Genk (Hasselt) Athus …
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The UNECE Strategy for ESD is a policy tool that helps the countries of the region to introduce and promote ESD in national formal, non-formal and informal education in their respective countries. It aims at developing policy, regulatory and operational frameworks to support ESD, equipping
… documents. 12 The EECCA countries are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the … difference between EE and ESD is often not clear (only in Belarus are EE and ESD declared to be conceptually … issues. Example(s): The National Environmental Forum of Belarus aims to achieve the broadest possible involvement of …
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Effective support to innovation requires specialized financial intermediaries that are able to provide not only money but also managerial and technical expertise. The review focuses on the provision of early-stage equity financing to innovative technology-based enterprises with a view to
… in which overall financial development remains limited. 1. Belarus Over recent years the number of small enterprises … for mere 0.6% of the small enterprise employment. The Belarusian Innovation Foundation, founded in 1998, aims to …
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At its eighty-second session, the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management (CUDHLM) endorsed the Guidelines for the development of Voluntary Local Reviews in the ECE Region (ECE/HBP/2021/4) and invited the secretariat to update the Guidelines based on the outcomes of their
… City Profiles in nine cities: Goris (Armenia), Grodno (Belarus), Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Voznesensk (Ukraine) and …
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Residential heating with wood and coal is an important source of ambient (outdoor) air pollution; it can also cause substantial indoor air pollution through either direct exposure or infiltration from outside. Evidence links emissions from wood and coal heating to serious health effects such as
… Member States Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia …
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This report provides a progress assessment on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), based on the data available in the United Nations Global SDG Indicators Database and on the statistical methodology commonly used by all
… Source: UNECE Statistical Database. Data for Serbia, Belarus, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan refers to 2015, Albania …
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The Safety Guidelines and Good Practices for Oil Terminals were developed within the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) project on hazard and crisis management in the Danube Delta involving the Republic of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine under the auspices of the
… (without Ireland and Malta): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzego- vina, Kazakhstan, Monaco, …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have negatively affected economic development in UNECE member States, significantly disrupting international trade, investment and cooperation. Because of their geographical location and development stage, these shocks have hit especially hard in
… 2 Conducted for Belarus (2011; 2017); Kazakhstan (2012); Ukraine (2013; … b They include Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, …
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This study on railway reform in the ECE Region looks at the history of railway reform within its member States and looks at how it has been implemented through a number of examples, highlighting that railway reform across the ECE region has taken different forms in terms of institutional structure
… steps seem to be moderate. In Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, … RU) BLS Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway (Swiss RU) BR Belarusian Railway (Belaruskaya Chugunka) CAREC Central …
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Available in English and in Russian (not laid out). (ECE/CEP/176, 44 pp.)
This publication contains guidelines to help make biodiversity monitoring a practical tool for environmental policy for countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe. The guidelines
… National experts from Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Finland, Georgia, …
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Opportunities and challenges for gender equality in the COVID-19 recovery
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of investment in the care economy for successful response, recovery and “building back better” from the pandemic. The report provides evidence on UN Economic Commission for Europe (
… enrolment ranges between 2 and 15 per cent (except for Belarus, where it is 29 per cent).10 In practice, a majority …
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Industrial accidents can have severe effects on people, the environment and economies, causing fatalities, disease outbreaks, injuries, environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, conflicts, political instability, financial loss and more. National governments and international organizations have
… comprised of: Michael Struckl (Austria), Evgeny Baranovsky (Belarus), Laura Vizbule (Latvia), Sanja Stamenkovic …
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Coordination between the water, energy, food and environment sectors is fraught with difficulties at the national level and the complexity increases substantially in transboundary basins. The “nexus approach” to managing interlinked resources has emerged as a way to enhance water, energy and food
… the best value in 2014 across the CIS was reached by Belarus: 246.8 g per kWt-hour.) Losses in the transmission …
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The Guidance on the Applicability of the Convention to the Lifetime Extension of Nuclear Power Plants was prepared by an ad hoc working group co-chaired by Germany and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as mandated by the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on
… of representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, the … to the ad hoc working group: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, …
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UNECE developed this Smart Sustainable City Profile of Podgorica to help the city realize its vision of becoming smart and sustainable. The analysis was based on the results of an evaluation of the city's performance against the UN4SSC Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities, a desk
… experienced a decrease in FDI flows in 2020, Montenegro, Belarus and Kazakhstan managed to increase their foreign …
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Ten years have passed since UNECE received its mandate to undertake Environmental Performance Reviews. To mark the decade, assess progress and propose the Programme’s future direction, UNECE undertook the analysis contained in this publication.
… economies in transition. At the outset, pilot reviews of Belarus, Bulgaria and Poland were carried out jointly by … OECD and UNECE, from 1994 to 1996, in Poland, Bulgaria and Belarus. In 1996, the Committee on Environmental Policy …
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There are 59 United Nations legal instruments in the area of inland transport which are administered by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Of the 59 conventions, seven road safety instruments are considered to be priorities for accession:
- 1968 Convention on Road
… Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and …
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Available in English and Russian. (ECE/CEP/168, 46 pp.)
This publication contains guidelines to help make monitoring a practical tool for environmental policy for countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe. The guidelines offer advice on how to:
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… National experts from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Finland, Georgia, …
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25th Anniversary brochure on the Convention and its Protocols
… A History of Success Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Canada …
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The objective of the Inventory of Main Standards and Parameters of the E Waterway Network (“Blue Book”) is to establish an inventory of existing and envisaged standards and parameters of E waterways and ports in Europe and to show, on an internationally comparable basis, the current inland
… km — low fairway depth (in some locations down to 2.20 m). Belarus Missing links: none. Basic bottlenecks: none. … maximum draught (1.40 m). • Pripyat (E 40) from Pkhov to Belarus/Ukraine border — low maximum draught (1.50 m). …