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This policy paper reviews the state of play of traceability and transparency approaches in three economic sectors critical to the circular transition in the ECE region: the agrifood, garment and footwear, and minerals sectors. Moreover, it provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for advancing the circular economy and highlights successful practices from the whole region. Lastly,
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Almaty has set its sights on becoming one of the leading smart and sustainable cities in the world and, since gaining independence, has made remarkable strides in developing sustainably. Despite favourable economic and demographic conditions, Almaty faces several challenges including air quality and pollutant emissions.
This Smart City Profile of Almaty helps address these challenges. It offers
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Albania is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in Europe, grappling with a set of unique challenges. The pattern of geographical development has led to specific challenges, including a lack of affordable housing in high-growth areas and widespread deprivations in declining areas. Albania has recently implemented a comprehensive reform package in the housing, planning, regional development and
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Amid multiple ongoing crises, UNECE’s 2023 SDGs status report revealed that the region was further away from achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development than it had been a year earlier.
The 2023 Annual Report illustrates how UNECE is supporting countries to accelerate SDGs progress and respond to key sustainable development challenges, leveraging its practical normative tools and policy
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This report is part of a global survey effort on the implementation of trade facilitation and paperless trade measures, undertaken jointly by the five United Nations Regional Commissions for Africa (ECA), Europe (ECE), Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and West Asia (ESCWA) as well as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
This report
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This report highlights the main results of an assessment of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus in the North-Western Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS), shared by Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. The aquifer system is one of the largest transboundary groundwater reserves of North Africa, extending over one million square kilometers and subject to increased water demands. Improving the management of the
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Fourth cycle of EPRs: advancing environmental performance in the region and beyond. Transforming Planet.
This calendar promotes the fourth cycle of UNECE EPRs, based on the document adopted by the Committee on Environmental Policy and subsequent decisions made, as well as ministerial decisions.
Three EPR cycles have already taken place. Printed copies of EPR publications may be
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The 2022 UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing (Rome, Italy, 16-17 June 2022) concluded the fourth cycle of review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) and its Regional Implementation Strategy (RIS).
These proceedings provide a summary of the Conference deliberations, as well as a synthesis of the policy progress made between 2017 and 2022 to advance active
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To support national efforts toward developing and implementing care-responsive and gender-transformative response and recovery policies, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) has engaged in a global project with UN regional commissions and cooperating partners. The toolkit “Placing Gender Equality and Care in the Center of National Economic Policies in Response to COVID-19” has been
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The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing in April 2002, set a comprehensive and bold agenda for ageing-related policies in the 21st century. With the UNECE Regional Implementation Strategy for MIPAA adopted in Berlin the same year, countries drew a roadmap for creating a society for all ages in the region.
This report, issued to
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The most recent in the series of Policy Briefs on Ageing is "Mainstreaming Ageing - Revisited"Unofficial translation (GER)
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This study summarizes the key findings of the ninth study, which focuses on Serbia. It was carried out pursuant to the Government’s request to support ongoing efforts to increase the trade sector’s contribution to development and the implementation of the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The study was prepared by the UNECE secretariat in close consultation with public and private-sector
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The National Trade Facilitation Roadmap of the Kyrgyz Republic 2021-2025 serves as the guiding framework for comprehensive national trade facilitation reforms over a five-year period. The Roadmap sets out a strategic vision and respective goals and activities for the Kyrgyz Republic to implement. Through these activities the Kyrgyz Republic can transform its trade facilitation services to
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A national transport, health and environment action plan (NTHEAP) is a key tool and mechanism for developing sustainable and healthy transport in a country. NTHEAPs provide a comprehensive and intersectoral way of planning and implementing transport, environment and health action at the national level. This manual was developed to guide NTHEAP development at the country level.
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Le Bureau régional de l’OMS pour l’Europe L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), créée en 1948, est une institution spécialisée des Nations Unies à qui incombe, sur le plan international, la responsabilité principale en matière de
questions sanitaires et de santé publique. Le Bureau régional de l’Europe est l’un des six bureaux régionaux de l’OMS répartis dans le monde. Chacun d’entre eux a
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Европейское региональное бюро ВОЗ Всемирная организация здравоохра-нения (ВОЗ) – специализированное учреждение Организации Объеди-ненных Наций, созданное в 1948 г.,основная функция которого состоит в решении международных проблем здравоохранения и охраны здоровья населения. Европейское региональ-ное бюро ВОЗ является одним из шести региональных бюро в различ-ных частях земного шара, каждое из