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This report assesses the main ingredients needed to navigate the transition towards agreed nitrogen sustainability targets.
Global nitrogen losses pose a serious threat to environmental sustainability and compromise the ability of the
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Agricultural residue burning is a challenge in many countries in the ECE region, as well as at the global level. Substantial and clear evidence exists that fire use has negative impact on soil organic matter by reducing soil fertility and ultimately reducing yields. Moreover, the emissions generated by agricultural residue burning contribute to air pollution and are important drivers of climate
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In December 2022, at its fifteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
, including a monitoring mechanism.
This guidance on the development of national strategies for the use of biodiversity monitoring helps to make biodiversity
monitoring a practical tool for environmental policy. The
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In December 2022, the resumed fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework, including a monitoring framework.
The present Guidelines for developing national strategies to use biodiversity monitoring help make biodiversity monitoring a practical tool for environmental policy. The guidelines
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The Guidance Document on Integrated Sustainable Nitrogen Management was prepared by the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen. The purpose of the document is to mobilize Parties’ efforts to control pollution from agricultural sources in the context of the wider nitrogen cycle in an integrated manner harvesting multiple co-benefits of improved nitrogen management. The document is in particular aimed to
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At the Seventh Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, held in Nur-Sultan in 2011,Ministers decided to develop the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) across the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). At the Eighth Conference, in Batumi, Georgia, in 2016, Ministers welcomed progress in developing SEIS to support a regular process of environmental
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Оценка является результатом сотрудничества между секретариатом Европейской экономической комиссии ООН (ЕЭК) и Программой ООН по окружающей среде (ЮНЕП) в сотрудничестве с многочисленными партнерскими организациями и отдельными экспертами. Рабочей группе ЕЭК по мониторингу и оценке окружающей среды было поручено возглавить процесс консультаций по регулярной общеевропейской экологической оценке.
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Cette évaluation est le fruit de la collaboration entre le secrétariat de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Europe (CEE) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement (PNUE), en coopération avec de nombreuses organisations partenaires et divers experts. Le Groupe de travail de la surveillance et de l’évaluation de l’environnement de la CEE a été chargé de diriger le
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The assessment is the result of a collaboration between the secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in cooperation with numerous partner organizations and individual experts. The ECE Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment was tasked with leading the process of consultation on the regular pan-
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Domestic wood heating is a major source of emissions of particulate matter, including black carbon (BC), and organic pollutants, such as dioxins/furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzo[a]pyrene (B(a)P), in the ECE region, resulting in poor local air quality conditions and significant negative effects on human health. The present document responds to the need to inform the
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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 Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (ECE/MP.EIA/27/Add.1–ECE/MP.EIA/SEA/11/Add.1,
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The availability of integrated, relevant, high-quality, timely and easily accessible environmental information provides the means for assessing environmental status and the foundation for meaningful and informed environmental governance. Timely, relevant, reliable and easily accessible environmental information is also essential to efforts to inform citizens about the quality of their environment
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The present publication contains the Revised Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context for Central Asian Countries, which have been developed as a tool for the consistent practical implementation of transboundary environmental impact assessment procedures and to assist the Governments of Central Asian countries in developing their national legislation in accordance
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The UNECE Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment has been engaged in efforts to make environmental monitoring an effective instrument in policymaking and, in particular, to assist countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. UNECE member States, with the support of the secretariat, have made significant progress in establishing the Shared
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This publication was prepared by the consultants to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) secretariat to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and its Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (Protocol on SEA) with the support of the secretariat and with funding from the EU-funded “Greening Economies in the
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