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The Italian Ministry of Health promoted “Portale Acque” to improve public access to information related to thermal, mineral, drinking and bathing water
Countries have mixed track records over the past decade in managing the environment, according to the tenth edition of the World Bank’s Little Green Data Book. The book has been tracking…
A Task Force on Public Participation in Decision-making was established on 30 June 2010 at an extraordinary session of the Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Convention on Access to Information,…
The Compliance Committee of the UNECE Aarhus Convention received its 50th communication shortly before its 28th meeting, which took place in Geneva from 15 to 18 June 2010.The Aarhus Convention’s…
La qualité de l’air dans les villes s’est améliorée entre 2000 et 2008, mais la biodiversité est encore mal protégée et les pesticides encore bien trop présents. Publié le 4 juin par le service…
The World Bank said today that it is on track to begin to implement the first phase of its new policy on Access to Information on July 1, one of several major reforms the Bank has undertaken to…
The first meeting of the governing body of the 2003 Kiev Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR), which entered into force on 8 October 2009, concluded in Geneva yesterday. The…
27th meeting of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee finds three communications admissible
Protocol will enter into force for Austria on 21 June 2010
The twenty-seventh meeting of the Compliance Committee of the UNECE Aarhus Convention took place in Geneva from 16 to 19 March 2010. The main outcomes of the meeting were as follows: