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The secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe warmly welcomes the recent announcements by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, that the Russian government will ratify two…
WARSAW – United Nations Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu warned Tuesday 31 May about the need for wide consultation at the national level over the construction of the first nuclear power plant in…
Marking the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Aarhus Convention, the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties is organized at the kind invitation of the Government of the Republic…
On 24th March 2011, the Human Rights Council at its Special Session welcomed the recognition of the right to water and sanitation as a human right directly derived from the right to an adequate…
The 30th meeting of the Compliance Committee of the UNECE Aarhus Convention took place in Geneva from 14 to 17 December 2010. The main outcomes of the meeting were as follows:
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia becomes 27th Party to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR). It joins South-Eastern European countries such as Albania,…
The Brazilian association of sugarcane producers (UNICA) has contested the methods used in the EU study on the effect of biofuels crop on land. According to UNICA, those results are incorrect and…
Press Release No:2011/120/EXT WASHINGTON, October 5, 2010 —The World Bank Group is releasing a wide range of tools and technology applications to empower more collaborative and effective solutions to…
The twenty-ninth meeting of the Compliance Committee of the UNECE Aarhus Convention took place in Geneva from 21 to 24 September 2010. The main outcomes of the meeting were as follows:
