UNEP URGES ACTION TO BETTER MANAGE GLOBE’S GROUNDWATERS

World Environment Day June 5:  Water -- Two Billion People Are Dying For It!

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BEIRUT/NAIROBI, 5 June (UNEP) -- Many of the world's “natural underground reservoirs”, upon which 2 billion people depend for drinking water and irrigation, are under increasing stress and strain, a new report launched on World Environment Day shows.

NEW INITIATIVE TO COMBAT GROWING GLOBAL MENACE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

UNEP Launches 'Green Customs' Project to Help Customs Officers

Beat Illegal Trade in Chemicals, Hazardous Wastes, Endangered Species

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RICH COUNTRIES SEE HIGHER GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Upward Trend Set to Continue

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      BONN, 3 June (Framework Convention on Climate Change-Secretariat) –- A new report confirms that the developed world, which stabilized its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases during the 1990s, is likely to see these emissions rise by the end of the current decade.

UNEP TARGETS RETAIL AND FASHION INDUSTRY AS PART OF ONGOING EFFORTS

TO PROMOTE ‘COOL’ GREEN LIFESTYLES

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BRUSSELS/PARIS/NAIROBI, 2 June (UNEP) -- From the catwalk to the consumer, the world's leading fashion designers and retail giants could play a major role in saving the planet.

‘GREEN’ LAWYERS, SAHARAN WATER PROJECT AND GREAT APE CHAMPION AMONG

WINNERS OF 2003 UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME AWARDS

European Ministers to Adopt Targets for Reversing Destruction

Of Nature and Landscape by 2010

Kyiv Conference -- 21-23 May, International Day for Biological Diversity -- 22 May

GENEVA/NAIROBI, 19 May (UNEP) -- Ministers and senior officials from

55 countries will meet in Kyiv from 21 to 23 May for the fifth Pan-European Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, the region's highest-level environmental forum.

UNEP URGES ASIA-PACIFIC TOWARDS CLEANER, GREENER DEVELOPMENT PATH

Indonesia Meeting to Examine

Promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

JAKARTA/BANGKOK/PARIS, 19 May (UNEP) -- According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), there are now more “middle to high income” consumers -- those earning more than $7,000 per annum -- in Asia and the Pacific than in Western Europe and North America combined.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

9th Meeting (AM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SETS LONG-TERM

WORK PROGRAMME, AS ELEVENTH SESSION CONCLUDES

Establishes Two-Year Implementation Cycles Aimed at Specific Clusters

of Issues; Also Decides on 2004 Preparatory Meeting for Small Island States Review

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

8th Meeting (PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION NEAR AGREEMENT ON DRAFT TEXTS;

SESSION SET TO CONCLUDE TOMORROW

In a brief meeting this afternoon, the Commission on Sustainable Development heard from its two working groups on the progress being made towards finalizing the draft decisions due to be adopted tomorrow at the close of the eleventh session.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

AM Meeting

WORLD’S SPENDING MUST DOUBLE TO MEET WATER, SANITATION GOALS SET AT 2000

MILLENNIUM SUMMIT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TOLD

Panel Held to Commemorate Year of Freshwater