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GEO yearbook 2003
… In preparing the Year Book, UNEP works with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to select … human settlement goals. The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee meets in Paris to review progress toward the goals … of Women Ministers for Environment and UNEP. The Nobel Committee announces that Professor Wangari Maathai, Assistant …
Procedures for monitoring the right to food
… bodies of international organizations such as the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). … of commitments and an action plan to achieve them. The Committee on World Food Security compiled and selected … health and nutritional status. At its 37th session, the Committee on World Food Security endorsed the proposal to …
UNEP Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… Organisation INC International Negotiating Committee JWG Joint Working Group LDC Least Developed Country … the UN or UNEP, convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC). Before negotiations begin, preparatory … The results then are submitted to a compliance committee, comprised of additional experts who review these …
Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… Organisation INC International Negotiating Committee JWG Joint Working Group LDC Least Developed Country … the UN or UNEP, convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC). Before negotiations begin, preparatory … The results then are submitted to a compliance committee, comprised of additional experts who review these …
Guide for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… Organisation INC International Negotiating Committee JWG Joint Working Group LDC Least Developed Country … the UN or UNEP, convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC). Before negotiations begin, preparatory … The results then are submitted to a compliance committee, comprised of additional experts who review these …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… the advisory body on nature to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Working closely with IUCN Members, Commissions and … State of Conservation documentation for the World Heritage Committee, which are an invaluable information base on many … sites, official and publicly available World Heritage Committee documents, such as State of Conservation reports, …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… at the national level. 2. See, for example, Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 6 (1982) on the right to life, para. 5. 3. See, for example, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general … an equal footing, of all rights and freedoms. Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 18 (1989) on …
Second report on the protection of the atmosphere
… session of the Commission and at the meetings of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session … supported sending the guidelines to the Drafting Committee, the Special Rapporteur decided not to request that … the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, the Sixth Committee considered the Commission ’s discussion of the …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… as Legal Counsel to the Nile River Basin Negotiating Committee. Professor McCaffrey’s publications include The Law … or 3. A group of contiguous watersheds. The Watershed Committee shall be responsible for the following within its … executive secretarial duties for the respective Watershed Committee or Committees. The Water Agencies shall have the …
Gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments: towards a global pact for the environment - Report of the Secretary-General
… These reports inform the discussions of the Implementation Committee under the Non- Compliance Procedure for the … is no mandate for the secretariat or the Implementation Committee to undertake verification of any reported data, … remains unresolved, refer the matter to the Implementation Committee for its consideration. 32. Illegal trade in …