 | Central Asian countries approve joint cooperation plan on water quality (07 May 2012)
Representatives of the five Central Asian states endorsed the first comprehensive Cooperation Plan on water quality for the region at a meeting in Almaty on 3 May. This Plan, «Development of the regional cooperation to ensure water quality in Central Asia», was developed within the project ... |
 | Parties to UNECE Air Pollution Convention approve new emission reduction commitments for main air pollutants by 2020 (04 May 2012)
Today the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) concluded its thirtieth session, held from 30 April to 4 May 2012 in Geneva, adopting historic amendments to the Convention’s 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and ... |
 | Advancing environmental governance in the UNECE region: Committee on Environmental Policy concludes eighteenth session (30 April 2012)
At its eighteenth session, held last week in Geneva from 17 to 20 April 2012, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Environmental Policy provisionally extended the mandates of bodies on environmental performance reviews and environmental monitoring and assessment, ... |
 | Third UNECE workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins (24 April 2012)
The Third workshop on water and climate change in transboundary basins: Making adaptation work will bring together more than 140 participants from all over the world on 25 and 26 April 2012 in Geneva to discuss how to prevent conflict in transboundary basins over dwindling water resources by ... |
 | Kyrgyzstan makes strides in improving its water resources management within framework of UNECE-supported National Policy Dialogue (20 April 2012)
On Wednesday, 18 April, in Bishkek, the seventh meeting of the Steering Committee of the National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resources Management approved work towards a River Basin Management Plan for the Chu River Basin and endorsed the outcome of a baseline study, which will serve as a ... |
 | UNECE supports Afghan-Tajik cooperation to address severe floods, vulnerable ecosystems and climate change impacts in Amu Darya Basin (03 April 2012)
Afghan and Tajik water and environment experts meeting in Dushanbe from 27 to 29 March 2012 agreed to establish cooperation to address pressing issues on their shared upper part of the Amu Darya River Basin.
As a result of the meeting, a bilateral working group will be set up to pursue further ... |
 | UNECE-supported studies find water quality problems and alarming decline in fish species in Dniester River (28 March 2012)
Two new reports reviewing the environmental condition of the Dniester River indicate water quality problems in the lower course of the Dniester and its estuary as well as alarming declines in fish populations. The reports were presented in Moldova and Ukraine on 22 March during several events ... |
 | UNECE to launch Environmental Performance Review of Morocco (20 March 2012)
Upon request from the Moroccan authorities, UNECE will carry out an Environmental Performance Review (EPR) of Morocco. A review mission is planned for September 2012, with the aim of finalizing the report in the first half of 2013.
The review will cover 14 areas of particular importance to ... |
 | UNECE Water Convention celebrates 20 years of transboundary water cooperation as it prepares to go global (16 March 2012)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates its twentieth anniversary today. It is the only international framework ... |
 | Renewed efforts are needed to ensure that access to water and sanitation for all is equitable (13 March 2012)
No one left behind: Good practices to ensure equitable access to water and sanitation, launched today, 13 March 2012, at the sixth World Water Forum in Marseille, France, highlights significant inequities in access to water and sanitation in the pan-European region and provides guidance on how to ... |
 | UNECE to contribute actively to 6th World Water Forum (06 March 2012)
UNECE will present its work and actively contribute to discussions at the 6th World Water Forum, to be held on 12- 17 March in Marseille, France. The largest water event in the world, the Forum brings together, every three years, more than 25,000 stakeholders from the worldwide water community, ... |
 | Globalization of the UNECE Water Convention will be one of the key priorities until 2015 and beyond (22 February 2012)
The consequences of the opening of the UNECE Water Convention to non-UNECE countries - its “globalization” - and its implications for the future programme of work will be a key priority for the future of the Convention. This was one of the main conclusions of a strategic workshop held on ... |
 | UNECE Water Convention to introduce Implementation Committee (03 February 2012)
On 1 February 2012, following two years of negotiations, the Legal Board of the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) finalized the proposal for a mechanism to facilitate implementation of and compliance with the ... |
