Environmental issues and sustainable development

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UNEP/61

UNEP-LED BALKANS TASK FORCE SCIENTISTS BEGIN SAMPLING OF DANUBE RIVER IN WAKE OF ROMANIA CYANIDE SPILL

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ENV/DEV/531
PI/1221

FOURTH SESSION OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL FORUM ON FORESTS MEETS AT HEADQUARTERS, 31 JANUARY – 11 FEBRUARY

Continues Attempt to Reach Agreement On International System for Protecting World’s Forests

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UNEP/56

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ON BIODIVERSITY DAY, SAYS CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY MATTER OF ETHICS, ECONOMICS, ECOLOGY

NAIROBI, 27 December (UNEP) – Following is the message of Klaus Toepfer, Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, which is observed 29 December:

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UNEP/55

COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY PROTOCOL ADOPTED BY PARTIES TO BASEL CONVENTION ON HAZARDOUS WASTES

Ministers Adopt Declaration on Treaty Priorities for Next Decade

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UNEP/53

TAKING ACTION ON TRADE-RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION UNEP RELEASES SIX NEW COUNTRY-LEVEL REPORTS

SEATTLE/NAIROBI, 2 December (UNEP) -- At the third World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Seattle, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is releasing six new reports that demonstrate how countries can take action to address trade-related environmental degradation.

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UNEP/54

ELEMENTS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE WTO AND UNEP

The following text was issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a press release on the eve of the third WTO ministerial meeting:

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ENV/DEV/529
UNEP/52

PROMOTING LINKAGES BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND TRADE POLICY

UNEP Calls for Integrated Approach to Trade and Environment Policy-Making at WTO Seattle Conference

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ENV/DEV/527

MINISTERS PLEDGE TO FINALIZE CLIMATE AGREEMENT BY NOVEMBER 2000

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.

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ENV/DEV/528
UNEP/51

2000 WILL BE CRITICAL YEAR FOR REVERSING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRENDS

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.

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UNEP/50

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PRIZE AWARDED TO NOBEL LAUREATE, MARIO J. MOLINA

Award Ceremony To Be Held at Headquarters 17 November