Transcript ADVANCING IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Seventh Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe” Astana (Kazakhstan), September / October 2011 & Fourth Regional Implementation Meeting on Sustainable Development Geneva, 1-2 December.

ADVANCING IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
Seventh Ministerial Conference
“Environment for Europe”
Astana (Kazakhstan), September / October 2011
&
Fourth Regional Implementation Meeting
on Sustainable Development
Geneva, 1-2 December 2009
Presentation by
Environment for Europe and Sustainable Development Team
Environment, Housing and Land Management Division, UNECE
“Environment for Europe” process
 a high-level platform to address environmental
priorities and promote broad horizontal cooperation, & a
regional pillar of sustainable development
 focused on helping countries of EECCA & SEE to raise
their environmental standards towards a common
regional standard
 EfE reform: strengthen the effectiveness of the process
and ensure that it remains appropriate for, and fully
aligned with, the changing needs of the UNECE region, the
evolving political and economic landscape and the
environmental priorities of the region
Astana Ministerial Conference
 Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP) is the
convening body for the preparatory process
 CEP-16 agreed on the two themes for the Conference:
 sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems
 greening the economy: mainstreaming the environment into
economic development
 Conference agenda prepared by CEP Extended Bureau
(Geneva, 16-17 Mar 2010)
& CEP-17 (Geneva, 2-5 Nov 2010)
 Ad Hoc Steering Group on Environmental Assessments
established to guide the preparation by EEA of an
“Assessment of Assessments” for the Conference
Astana Ministerial Conference
 possible issues to be addressed within ‘water’ theme:
increasing water scarcity and its impact on food &
energy security & economic development, integrated &
transboundary water management, melting of glaciers,
water quality, water supply and sanitation, …
 possible issues to be addressed within ‘greening the
economy’ theme:
the reduction of carbon emissions, energy efficiency,
sustainable consumption and production, the
reconfiguration of financing and infrastructure to better
accommodate environmental considerations, …
Sustainable Development in UNECE
 4th Regional Implementation Meeting on Sustainable
Development (Geneva, 1-2 December 2009)
 Regional input into global discussion at CSD-18, May
2010
 Transport, Chemicals, Waste management, Mining, 10-
Year framework of programmes on sustainable
consumption and production patterns
 Progress made, obstacles encountered, & policies &
measures required for further progress
 Cross-cutting issues and interlinkages between
thematic issues; reporting on CSD-17
 Chair’s Summary to be submitted to CSD-18
Environment & SD in the UNECE
thank you!
for more information visit:
CEP: http://www.unece.org/env/cep/welcome.html
EfE: http://www.unece.org/env/efe/welcome.html
RIM-4: http://www.unece.org/env/SustainableDevelopment/welcome.htm