http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/efe_feed_rss.xml Environment for Europe en-us copyright 2012-05-27T23:04:51+01:00 unece.org RSS FEED http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=4711 The Seventh “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference took place in Astana (Kazakhstan) from 21 to 23 September 2011 For more information please see the Conferences report (En Fr R... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=4711 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=8374 Belgrade Serbia The Sixth Ministerial Conference Environment for Europe took place in Belgrade (Serbia) from 10 to 12 October 2007 Ministers and highlevel officials from 51 UNECE member States and the European Commission international organisations NGOs and other stakeholders discussed progress achieved in the implementation of environmental policies since the Kiev Conference in 2003 capacity building and partnerships as well as the future of the Environment for Europe process The Ministerial Declaration (En Fr Ru) adopted by acclamation underlined that the EfE process is a valuable response to the common intention of the UNECE member States to improve the environment throughout the region contributing to sustainable development which may in turn contribute to poverty eradication to improving the quality of life and to a safer world Ministers and Heads of delegation committed to intensify efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to put in effect the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) A number of reports such as on the implementation of UNECE multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) on Critical issues in implementation of environmental policies highlighted by the UNECE EPR programme and on Policies for a better environment progress in Eastern Europe Caucasus and Central Asia were presented at the Conference Various initiatives including the Belgrade Initiative on regional cooperation of interested SouthEastern European countries in the field of climate change the Central Asian initiative on Sustainable Development initiative on Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Guiding principles of effective environmental permitting systems were noted with interest by the Confenrece Ministers and Heads of delegation UNECE member States and of the European Commission endorsed and called for the adoption and full implementation of the UNECE Recommendations on environmental indicators and indicatorbased assessments and the Guidelines for enterprise monitoring for countries of Eastern Europe Caucasus and Central Asia They noted with appreciation the First assessment of transboundary rivers lakes and groundwaters in the UNECE region and invited the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention to prepare the second assessment of transboundary waters Two special sessions a joint session of environment and education ministers from member States that adopted the UNECE Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development in Vilnius (March 2005) and other interested member States; and a round... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=8374 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13337 Belgrade For more information please the documents below ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13337 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13341 The fifth meeting of the WGSO took place in Geneva on 29 (am) August 2007 backtoback to the third meeting of the Drafting Group for preparing the Ministerial Declaration that took place on 29 (pm) 31 August 2007 For more information please see the documents below... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13341 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24949 Geneva The third meeting of the Drafting Group took place in Geneva on 29 (pm) 31 August 2007 backtoback to the fifth meeting of the WGSO that took place on 29 (am) August 2007 It resumed its work on the draft declaration (En Fr ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24949 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24947 Geneva The second meeting of the Drafting Group took place in Geneva on 23 July 2007 It started drafting the text of the declaration on the basis of the first draft prepared by the secretariat A draft ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24947 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24941 Geneva The sixth meeting took place in Geneva on 1(am) June 2007 backtoback to the fourth meeting of the WGSO 30 31 May 2007 For more information please see the provisional agenda and the report (En ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24941 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13344 The fourth meeting of the WGSO took place in Geneva on 30 31 May 2007 backtoback to the fourteenth session of the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy that took place on 29 May 2007 For more information please see the documents below... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=13344 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24944 Geneva The first meeting of the Drafting Group was held in Geneva on 1516 February 2007 Following the decision by the WGSO and the request from the Executive Committee the secretariat has prepared the first draft of possible elements for the Draft Declaration of the Belgrade Ministerial Conference for the Executive Committee’s fifth meeting (1415(am) February 2007) and the subsequent first meeting of the Drafting Group The Drafting Group considered the draft of possible elements for the Ministerial Declaration and suggested a number of additional issues for inclusion It invited delegations to submit comments on the revised document with possible elements for the Ministerial Declaration that was circulated at the end of the meeting DOC The received comments are uploaded hereunder ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24944 http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24938 Geneva The fifth meeting took place in Geneva on 14 15(am) February 2007 backtoback to the first meeting of the Drafting Group for Preparing the Ministerial Declaration 15(pm) 16 February 2007 For more information about the meeting please see the documents below ... http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=24938