Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Environmental issues and sustainable development

ENV/DEV/486

KYOTO PROTOCOL TALKS IN BUENOS AIRES TO PROMOTE EMISSIONS CUTS

2 November 1998


Press Release
ENV/DEV/486


KYOTO PROTOCOL TALKS IN BUENOS AIRES TO PROMOTE EMISSIONS CUTS

19981102

BUENOS AIRES, 2 November (UNFCCC) -- Ministers and other senior officials from some 180 governments are meeting here from 2 to 13 November to pave the way for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as required by the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

ENV/DEV/478

COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS CALLS FOR TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGIES

1 May 1998


Press Release
ENV/DEV/478


COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS CALLS FOR TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGIES

19980501 Concludes High-Level Segment

The transfer of environmentally sound technologies from developed to developing countries should be accompanied by transfer of the capacity to maintain them, the Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa told the Commission this morning.