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In the 75 years of its existence UNECE has proved to be an effective platform for cooperation among countries in the pan-European region and beyond, facilitating economic development and integration. Yet, due to ongoing multiple crises, the region is further away from achieving the 2030 Agenda…
На сегодняшний день на ископаемое топливо приходится 95 процентов общего объема энергоснабжения в 5 странах Центральной Азии – Казахстане, Кыргызстане, Таджикистане, Туркменистане и Узбекистане – членах ЕЭК ООН.
Странам потребуется массовый переход от ископаемых видов топлива к…
Today, fossil fuels account for 95% of total energy supply in the 5 countries of Central Asia - - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - that are members of UNECE.
A massive shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable sources will be needed for…
Gathering in Geneva on the margins of this week’s UNECE 70th Commission session, Ministers and high-level representatives of countries participating in the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan…
Technology and digitalization are reshaping the land administration undertaken by governments to manage land and cadastre registries and tenure rights. With this fundamental work key to all planning in both cities and rural areas, for land and property-based taxation, and vital in the fight…
The 2023 UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development brought together over 1000 participants to scale up action for the SDGs as the region finds itself mired in multiple crises. The forum took place on 29 and 30 March, with over 30 side events as well as pre-meetings from Youth and Civil…
The Special Envoy will travel in South-East Asia and will meet with Ministers as well as the private sector, public sector and NGO stakeholders in Lao PDR (5-7 April), Thailand (10 April), the Philippines (11-14 April) and Malaysia (17-19 April) to advocate for the effective implementation of…
Iraq’s accession to the United Nations TIR Convention will boost trade and growth in the Middle East
Iraq’s has become the 78th contacting party to the TIR Convention. All its neighbours: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, the Syrian Arab Republic, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, are also contracting parties, opening up perspectives for more efficient and secure flow of goods across the…
Iraq today made history as the first country in the Middle East to join the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (known as the UN Water Convention). It becomes the 49th Party to this unique international legal and intergovernmental framework…
In an unprecedented political push for cross-border water cooperation, Ministers from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East have declared at the UN Water Conference their country’s resolve to join a key United Nations accord known as the Water Convention.
In what could constitute a…
Italy and Kazakhstan have committed to reinforce action to uphold human rights to water and sanitation for all by joining the UNECE/WHO Europe Protocol on Water and Health, at the milestone UN Water Conference in New York.
Hungary, as Chair of the Protocol, also shared its commitment…
Nigeria joins the UN Water Convention, pushing forward water cooperation across borders
As leaders gather in New York for the milestone UN Water Conference, Nigeria has taken a decisive step for cooperative water action by officially becoming the 48th Party to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (known as the UN Water…
The massive shift to renewable energy and green technologies needed to meet the obligations under the Paris Agreement will require an exponential increase in the use of critical raw materials (rare earths, lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, silicon etc.) by 2050.
The EU currently relies…
40 countries, regional integration and international organizations, international financial institutions, NGOs, academic and research centers have made a united call at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference to step up global efforts for transboundary water cooperation.
A…
When leaders gather in New York on 22-24 March for the first major UN Water Conference in almost 50 years, the world must not miss the opportunity to secure greater cooperation on shared waters – which account for some 60% of global freshwater flow – as a prerequisite to address the global water…
联合国欧洲经济委员会报告显示成员国实现可持续发展目标的进展正在放缓，呼吁重新提供政治动力
今天发布的可持续发展目标报告指出，面对成员国地区各种相互交织的危机，联合国欧洲经济委员会各成员国必须加倍努力，以避免在实现可持续发展过程中的危机加剧。
在题为《可持续发展面临日益严峻的挑战：联合国欧洲经济委员会成员国能否在2023年扭转局势？》的报告中，其描述的局势令人深省。该报告发现，预计到 2030年，在成员国地区（这一地区拥有世界上16%的人口，占据全世界基于购买力平价计算的GDP的41.4%，约占官方发展援助（ODA）总额的83%）内有望达成的目标仅有21个（占115个可衡量目标的18%）。…
Перед лицом многочисленных пересекающихся кризисов в регионе государства-члены ЕЭК ООН должны удвоить усилия, чтобы предотвратить продолжение кризиса в области устойчивого развития, говорится в опубликованном сегодня докладе о состоянии ЦУР.
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Face aux multiples crises qui se croisent dans la région, les États membres de la CEE-ONU doivent redoubler d'efforts pour éviter une nouvelle crise du développement durable, selon le rapport sur l'état d'avancement des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) publié aujourd'hui.
Le…
Ante las múltiples crisis que se entrecruzan en la región, los Estados miembros de la Comisión Económica para Europa de Naciones Unidas (CEPE) deben redoblar sus esfuerzos para evitar una nueva crisis del desarrollo sostenible, según el informe sobre la situación de los ODS publicado hoy. …
In the face of multiple intersecting crises in the region, UNECE member States must redouble efforts to avert a further crisis of sustainable development, according to the SDG status report released today.
The report, Growing Challenges for Sustainable…