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.

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.

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

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

7^th Meeting (PM)

SMALL ISLAND STATES, REVIEW OF 1994 BARBADOS ACTION PLAN

FOCUS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

AM Meeting

MAJOR CIVIC GROUPS COMMENT ON PROPOSED FUTURE WORK PROGRAMME

OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Nine major civil society groups commented on draft decisions introduced yesterday by the Commission on Sustainable Development on its future work programmes, as that body continued its eleventh session this morning.

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

AM & PM Meetings

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH CIVIC GROUPS; STRENGTHENED

INVOLVEMENT IN IMPLEMENTING JOHANNESBURG GOALS STRESSED

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

4^th Meeting (AM & PM)

OBSTACLES FACING AFRICA IN REACHING JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT GOALS

FOCUS OF DISCUSSION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

3^rd Meeting (AM&PM)

SPEAKERS URGE INCREASED ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN MEETING WATER, ENERGY NEEDS, AS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES

Holds Ministerial Debate, Regional Forum, Round Table;