Annual Report (28 April 2007-1 April 2009)

Provisional agenda for the sixty-third session

Tentative timetable

Registration form

Item 2 of the provisional agenda
Economic Development in the ECE region
Informal note

Programme

Item 3 of the provisional agenda
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
The work of the Economic Commission for Europe: Translating global objectives and commitments into regional results
Background note by the secretariat

Informal note

Programme

Item 4 of the provisional agenda
Review of the ECE Reform
Note by the secretariat

Item 5 of the provisional agenda
Report of the Committee on Environmental Policy on its Special Session
Note by the secretariat

Item 6 of the provisional agenda
Issues calling for action by the Commission
Note by the Executive Secretary

* Please note symbol change from that referred to in annotated agenda.

Opening Session - General Economic Situation in Europe

Mr. Marek Belka - The impact and challenges of the current financial and economic crisis

Mr. Jean-Daniel Gerber - The financial crisis: the response of Switzerland

Mr. Alexander Yakovenko - The role of the ECE in addressing the economic challenges in the wider European region

Panel One

Mr. Michael Roberts - The importance of AfT for low-income countries (and donors!) within the UNECE region

Mr. Lubomír Jahnátek - The importance of energy security

Mrs. Tatyana Starchenko - The Economic integration in the wider Europe

Mr. Tair Mansurov - The Euro-Asian transport links

Ms. Etelka Barsi-Pataky - The importance of pan- European and transcontinental transport inter-connectivity – UNECE as the gateway between the EU and non-EU countries

Mr. Philippe Meunier - The Energy interconnections and water management in Central Asia

Mr. Gary Litman - The U.S. private sector perspectives on investment in and trade with Russia, CIS and Central Asia

Mr. Sigurd Heiberg - The Global energy reserves and the need for establishing a compatible standard for measuring energy reserves and resources (UNFC)

Panel Two

Mr. Augusto Lopez-Claros - Creating growing knowledge-based innovative economies in the wider European region

Mrs. Marina Kaljurand - The knowledge-based economy as a way forward

Mr. Antonio Erario - The Innovation challenges in transport and benefits from Intelligent Transport Systems – ITS applications in helping ECE economies to integrate more fully and become globally competitive.

Mr. Sergey Mostinsky - The role of innovation in economic competitiveness and diversification -- the challenges of economic cooperation and integration and the impact of the current financial crisis on innovative development.

Mr. Malcolm McKinnon - Eliminating paper and simplifying procedures

Mr. Steve Williams - Reforming real estate markets for financial stability

Panel Three

Ms. Kori Udovicki - An overview of the situation of poverty and the status of the MDGs in the region and how the financial/economic crisis is impacting progress

Mr. Fredrik Arthur - The implications of the financial crisis on gender equality and development cooperation

Mr. Marin Anton - The global safety crisis and the MDGs

Mr. Fatmir Besimi - The impact of the financial crisis in a small and open economy on labour markets

Mr. Bernd Marin - Addressing aging and the need for pension reform

Mr. Hussein Abaza - Creating a green economy and achieving MDG 7 on ensuring environmental sustainability