E. Environmental law programme

We propose that the Inter agency and Expert Group document the list of international programmes to improve indicators.

With regard to the proposed environmental education programme, Iraq states that it is a human services programme and not an appropriate form of compensatory restoration for loss of ecological services.

Recently, the Network prepared the Practical Guidelines for Developing and Designing an Environmental Monitoring Programme in Antarctica.

UNEP reported on gender mainstreaming in environmental assessment and early warning.

UNEP, together with subregional partners, has initiated the Central Asia integrated environmental assessment reporting process.

The activities carried out by the UNITAR environmental law programme have focused on a distance learning course on international environmental law and on the development of capacity building workshops organized at both the national and the regional level.

In 2001, UNESCO brought in a new phase of its Siberut Programme, with the intention of protecting the ecosystem through local development.

8 See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992.

In order to enhance and mainstream environmental management, efforts are being made to develop further the Guate Verde (Green Guatemala) programme, which is the environmental component of the current national agenda.

The distance learning course is a two year self tailored programme that leads to a UNITAR diploma in international environmental law.

The UNITAR environmental law programme has successfully used this new training methodology in the workshops conducted in Georgia, Jordan and Croatia.

Capacity building is a critical component of the UNEP portfolio in the fields of environmental assessment, trend analysis and reporting.

The Union has established six commissions of which two, those on protected areas and on environmental law, have made significant contributions to the its Antarctica Programme.

Belarus

PROPECA (Environmental Education Project) in the city of Beira, and the Environmental Working Group (G.T.A. ) make environmental education, inquiry and advisory work on environment.

In the European Union, the very first Environmental Action Programmed was adopted by national government representatives in July 1973 during the first meeting of the Council of Environmental Ministers.

Assistance in project formulation In 1997, Lesotho, in cooperation with UNDP, launched the Environmental Youth Corps, a project to rehabilitate degraded environments in rural and urban areas and to create income generating activities for unemployed youth.

The environmental law programme has recently introduced knowledge management tools into its training activities designed to study national competencies in implementing environmental obligations.

At its twenty third session, held in Nairobi from 21 to 25 February 2005, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Global Ministerial Environment Forum gave new impetus to the implementation of the environmental agenda across a wide range.

The Carpathian Environment Outlook (KEO) is an integrated environmental assessment reporting process launched by UNEP in March 2004.

Urges UNEP to update its report on the environmental situation in Occupied Palestinian Territories and submit it to the GC for immediate reaction.

Mexico s War of Choice

North Korea s Choice

Environmental monitoring techniques

International Environmental Law

Environmental monitoring

The GEO Cities methodology was developed by UNEP and regional partners to allow for integrated environmental assessment at the urban level.

Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

In early February, the United Nations Environment Program will convene some of the world s leading economists at the UN s headquarters in New York.

The Global Green New Deal, which UNEP launched as a concept in October 2008, responds to the current economic malaise.

Meanwhile,the UN Environment Program reports that global investment in renewable energy totaled only 257 billion in 2011.

It had before it an excerpt from the report of the Eighth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas (E 2005 83).

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

Women have the right to choose.

We have a choice.

So choices have to be made.

Empowerment is the freedom to choose.

Environmental assessment and early warning

C. Environmental impact assessment

Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling

In addition to hands on capacity building, such as the fellowship programme mentioned above in connection with GEO 4, UNEP is actively engaged in the development of integrated environmental assessment manuals, guidelines and data analysis tools and the transfer of skills and expertise through targeted training.

(iii) Fellowships and grants (ROLAC) fellowships granted to cover costs to attend selected environmental courses and workshops under the Environmental Training Network Programme

The Mixed Blessing of Genetic Choice

The choice today is clear.