The following text was issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a press release on the eve of the third WTO ministerial meeting:
UNEP Calls for Integrated Approach to Trade and Environment Policy-Making at WTO Seattle Conference
BONN, 5 November (UNFCCC) -- Ministers and officials from 166 governments are concluding two weeks of climate change talks here after setting an aggressive timetable for completing the outstanding details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change by November 2000, thus triggering its early ratification by governments.
NAIROBI, 8 November (UNEP) -- The fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries will be determined over the next twelve months, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said here today.
Award Ceremony To Be Held at Headquarters 17 November
NAIROBI, 22 October (UNEP) -- At a workshop to be held at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from 26 to 30 October, more than 100 experts and policy makers will hold discussions on the sustainable management of freshwater resources in Africa.
BONN, 11 October (United Nations Information Service) -- International efforts to tackle the problem of global climate change will continue at a major United Nations conference in Bonn, Germany, from 25 October to 5 November. Some 5,000 participants from 150 countries are expected to attend.
NAIROBI, 15 September (UNEP) - Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launches its Global Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO-2000) report -- the most authoritative assessment ever of the environmental crisis facing humanity in the new millennium.
