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An Overview of UNEP’s Assessment and
Reporting Activities (incl. methods and
tools) in the transitional countries
Regional Environmental Information
Networking Meeting for the Caucasus and
Eastern Europe, Hotel Khreschatyk, Kyiv,
Ukraine, 3-5 November 2009
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What is covered in this initial overview?
 UNEP’s mandates and methods in environment
assessment and reporting, particularly IEA.
 Sub-regional assessments such as the Caucasus,
Carpathians and Balkans/Dinaric Arc and
Environment Outlook processes.
 Environment & Security (ENVSEC) Initiative.
 GEO-Cities and other sub-national activities.
 Events/meetings/trainings/workshops and “other”
current or recent reporting exercises.
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UNEP’s Assessment Mandate
Since 1972, UNEP has had a mandate (UNGA
res. 2997) to review the global environment.
This is fulfilled in two main ways:
1) Establish a common methodology for assessments of environmental developments; and
2) Prepare reports on the environmental state
and outlook globally, and for regions, subregions, countries and at local level .
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The Bali Strategic Plan (BSP) and
related Capacity Development
 A plan to help countries achieve environmental sustainability through technology and capacity building.
 Adopted by UNEP’s Governing Council in 2005.
 Gives UNEP a mandate to assist with capacity building
at national and regional levels.
 Three priority areas:
- integration and implementation of environmental aspects of
national sustainable development plans (e.g. UNDAFs);
- support national institutions with data collection & monitoring;
- develop capacity for research, monitoring, assessment and
early warning activities/projects.
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UNEP’s Assessment Mandate
Keep under review the
state
& trends
in the
is toofprovide
leader
global
environment,
and
ship and encourage
provide early warning of
emerging environmental
problems and threats.
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UNEP’s Division of Early Warning
and Assessment (DEWA)
DEWA implements the UNEP mandate in line
with the following “mission statement”:
Provide the world community with improved access
to meaningful environmental data and information,
and help increase the capacity of governments to use
environmental information for decision-making and
action planning for sustainable human development.
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UNEP’s GEO Assessments
 The GEO Assessment series is the UN’s
“flagship” assessment reporting process.
 DEWA with other divisions of UNEP and a
series of partners worldwide (e.g. CCs),
manages the entire GEO process.
 Reports have been published in 1997, 1999,
2003 and Oct. 2007 (GEO-4).
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IEA/GEO as both a process and products…
 Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series of
reports on the state of the global environment, and associated products.
 the GEO Process: a consultative, participatory,
capacity-building process initiated and led
since 1995 by UNEP for global environmental assessment and reporting.
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UNEP’s GEO Report Series
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Annual GEO “UNEP Yearbooks”
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Each volume covers major environmental events of the previous year…
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Pan-European Reporting by EEA et al.
(regional reporting examples)
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…pan-European Reporting Series.
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A Sub-regional GEO Report “Caucasus
Environment Outlook (CEO)” (2001-02)
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Caucasus Environment Outlook report
 First attempt to look at the trans-Caucasian
environment in a holistic fashion.
 Prepared at the request of governments and with
inputs from Armenian, Azeri, Georgian and
Russian environmental experts.
 Included different scenarios of “potential
futures” for the region ‘a la GEO.
 CEO was launched by the Georgian Minister of
Environment in Tbilisi on 24 June 2002.
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GEO Sub-regional report for the Carpathian
Mountains: Karpaths Env. Outlook (KEO)
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KEO Chapter Lead Authors
 Dr. Dan Balteanu, Prof. Institute of Geography, Romanian
Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania (Chapter 1).
 Dr. Aristita Busuioc, Head of the Climatology Division,
National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest
(Chapter 3).
 Dr. Mikulás Huba, Prof Institute of Geography, Slovak
Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (Chapter 3).
 Dr. Istvan Pomazi, Chief Advisor, Ministry of Environment and Water, Budapest, Hungary (Chapters 2 and 4).
 Dr. Mircea Sandulescu, Prof. Romanian Academy of
Sciences, Bucharest, Romania (Chapter 3).
 Dr. Zbigniew Witkowski, Prof. Academy of Physical
Education, Krakow, Poland (Chapter 3).
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Carpathians Environment Outlook (KEO)
Prepared by national experts of
Czech Rep., Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
in a three-year process led by
UNEP DEWA and ROE
and launched at the
Sixth Ministerial Conference
“Environment for Europe”
Sava Conference Centre
Belgrade, Serbia
10 October 2007
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Dinaric Arc/Balkans in SE Europe
UNEP-WCMC
Albania
Bosnia & Herz.
Bulgaria
Croatia
FYRoMacedonia
Slovenia
Serbia & Monte.
Greece
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Mountain Area
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20,604
38,112
44,730
16,578
21,530
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54,890
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71.7
74.5
40.3
29.3
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Mountain Area
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15,000
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44,000
21,000
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9,500
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79,000
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Proposed Contents of the DABEO
Main issues to be addressed:
 Clear and mutually agreed definition of the Dinaric Arc and
Balkan mountains region for purposes of this study;
 Thematic issues relating to sustainable development of the
Balkans/Dinaric Arc region (six UNEP priority areas);
 Interlinkages between the physical environment, human
well-being and traditional economic sectors;
 Common environmental issues of high interest to most
Dinaric Arc/Balkan countries;
 Geo-political issues which both divide and unite countries of
the region;
 Specific environmental and human-related problems of the
high mountain zone.
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Preliminary DABEO Website
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Environment and Security (ENVSEC)
The ENVSEC initiative was begun by UNEP with
OSCE and UNDP in 2000; later joined by
NATO, REC and UNECE.
 The ENVSEC initiative/partners hold regular
consultations with countries and conduct
project activities in four sub-regions: the
Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern & SE Europe.
 A total of nearly 100 ENVSEC projects have been
completed and/or are in progress as of 10/09.
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Sample list of ENVSEC Projects
 Eastern Europe Assessment (overall) for Belarus,
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Moldova and Ukraine (completed 2008).
Donbas mining risks (Ukraine) completed (year).
Dniester River Basin (Moldova-Ukraine) ongoing.
Drisviaty Lake Basin (Belarus-Lithuania) ongoing.
Pripyat Lake Basin (Belarus-Ukraine) ongoing.
Energy security vs. environment (BelarusMoldova-Ukraine) ongoing.
Danube Delta region (Moldova-Romania-Ukraine)
assessment and monitoring to be undertaken.
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GEO-Cities and local area reporting
 GEO-Cities initiative began in 2000 to extend GEOstyle Assessment and Reporting to the city level.
 Initiated by the Latin and Caribbean region (LAC
Forum of Ministers; UNEP Governing Council)
and more than 30 cities in LAC have participated.
 Similar activities are underway in Africa, Asia &
Pacific and the European region since 2008.
 Other world cities include Nairobi, Lusaka, Dakar,
Dhaka, Kathmandu and Shenzhen (China).
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GEO-Cities: Summary of Objectives
1. Set up an IEA process with local authorities;
2. Contribute to local capacity through IEA training
in an urban/municipal context;
3. Establish consensus on the most critical environmental problems in each city;
4. Promote the creation of networks of institutions in
each city assessed; plus…
5. Set up a longer-term sustainable process for
keeping the urban environment under review.
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Examples of GEO-Cities / local studies
 Yerevan city (Armenia) completed in 2009.
 Donetsk oblast (Ukraine) ongoing since 2008.
 Hrazdan (Arm.), Gumri (Az.) and Alaverdi (Ge.)
cities are also all ongoing projects.
 Tirana (Albania) is getting under way in late 2009.
 Novopolotsk city (Belarus) and the Crimea (env’l.
trends) are both forthcoming in near future.
 others to be considered..?
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GEO-Cities for Yerevan report
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Events, meetings and other reporting
 Environment & Health pilot assessment (Moldova).
 Customisation of the IEA Training Manual and
GEO Cities manual for Europe; translation of
both into Russian (ongoing).
 IEA Training course (Caucasus Sept. ‘09).
 ENVSEC regional meetings and GEO-Cities mtgs.
 Media tours and training courses (Donetsk in
2008-09 and Belarus/Dniester in 2010).
 EnviroGRIDs Project for Black Sea basin.
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Spasibo / Thanks
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