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| UNEP Annual Global Ministerial Meeting
Environment ministers from around the world gathered in Monaco for the Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council (GC) and Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) last February 20 to 22 2008. The governance framework enabled nearly 140 governments to decide on key issues related to UNEP’s strategic program-of-work and opportunities to finance climate change efforts. The host country was represented with hospitality by His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Monaco.
Greater Mekong Sub-region Environment Ministerial Meeting in Laos
The Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2) was held in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 29 January 2008. Organized under the theme “Sustainable Natural Resource Use for Economic Competitiveness,” the meeting brought together delegates from six GMS countries, program donors, implementing partners, multilateral and bilateral agencies, NGO’s and representatives of the private sector as observers. The Meeting reviewed the progress of the GMS programmes and agreed on a Declaration, as input to the Heads of Governments meeting to be conducted later this year.
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APFED Showcase Programme 2008: Send your innovative environmental project proposals!
Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) is a regional group of eminent experts that aims to address critical issues facing Asia and the Pacific region and to propose new models for sustainable development.
To promote sustainable development in the region, APFED launched the APFED Showcase Programme as one of the main activities. This Programme is supported by the Ministry of Environment Japan. More>> |
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GEO-4 assessment has used the 1987 report – Our Common Future
– as the baseline, it highlights both environment and development issues,
focusing on human well-being and role of environment in development. |
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
 Shenzhen Environment Outlook (SEO) was officially launched in November 2007. It is the first GEO city report in China where the complete IEA methodlogy was fully applied. The process was a successful collaboration among Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, Environmental Protection Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality (EPB), State Environmental Protection Administration and UNEP. SEO assessed the major environmental issues in the City, and discussed Human Well-being issues caused by the environmental changes. The report also used scenario development to analyse the unfolded future of the City.
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 Greater Mekong Environment Outlook - GMEO was released in December 2007. The report identified key environmental issues as great challegnes for GMS countries and international communities. Implications of social and environmental changes were discussed as cross-cutting issues. The report finally provides outlook and recommendations for policy review and development.
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 Sub-regional
Integrated Environment Assessment: Central Asia:The Central
Asian sub-region consists of the following sovereign countries –
Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan. After the collapse of former
Soviet Union the Central Asian countries, with their identical historical,
social and religious traditions have faced a number of similar economic,
social and environmental problems. Common environmental problems
in the subregion have galvanized the regional cooperation among
the countries, which consider the move towards environmental security
and sustainable development as priority. To
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 Impact
of Climate Change on Himalayan Glaciers and Glacial Lakes: Case Studies
on GLOF and Associated Hazards in Nepal and Bhutan (2007):The
global mean temperature is expected to increase between 1.4 to 5.8ºC
over the next hundred years. The consequences of this change in global
climate are already being witnessed in the Himalayas where glaciers
and glacial lakes are changing at alarming rates. Himalayan glaciers
are retreating at rates ranging from 10 to 60m per year and many small
glaciers (<0.2 sq.km) have already disappeared. Our study shows
that the terminus of most of the high altitude valley glaciers in
Bhutan, China, and Nepal are retreating very fast; vertical shifts
as great as 100m have been recorded during the last fifty years and
retreat rates of 30m per year are common. |
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 Nepal
Biodiversity Resource Book (2007): Nepal comprises of only 0.1%
of land area on a global scale, but it possesses a disproportionately
rich diversity of flora and fauna at genetic, species and ecosystem
levels. The Biodiversity Profiles of Nepal 1996 (BPN) was the first
initiative of its kind to document all the information on Nepal's
biodiversity recorded till the year 1995. The objective of NBRB
was to update 1996 Biodiversity Profiles focusing on the flora and
fauna diversity implicitly in the Protected Areas, Ramsar Sites
and World Heritage Sites of Nepal using published information between
1996 and 2005 and field verification.
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VACANCY
-Consultant on V&A Assessment in Central Asia and Capacity Building
-Director,Division of Regional Cooperation
-Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
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MISSION
"To provide leadership and encourage partnerships in caring for the
environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people
to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future
generations." |
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