UNECE Highlights: UNECE, COP29 Presidency and UNFCCC brief Member States ahead of COP29
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UNECE fosters sustainable development by translating #GlobalGoals into norms and conventions that impact people’s lives
“The world needs a successful COP29, with strong commitments on emission reductions, adaptation and climate finance”, stressed Executive Secretary Tatiana Molcean in her video address to the briefing for UN Member States and civil society co-organized by UNECE and the COP29 Presidency. The briefing presented COP29 Global Initiatives and shared updates on COP29 Azerbaijan preparations. UNFCCC also outlined key priorities for negotiations. The Executive Secretary further highlighted that many UNECE norms, standards and conventions provide practical tools to support countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, to leverage financing, and to strengthen collaboration.?These resources can help ensure a just and resilient energy transition, to decarbonize transport, to strengthen cross-border water cooperation, and harness forests for climate action, among many other areas. Read more
Environment
New guidelines to sharpen data-driven policies on environmental challenges
Indicators are vital tools in environmental and economic policymaking. Together with the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators and with the support of the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, UNECE has released updated?Guidelines for the Application of Environmental Indicators, a tool designed to enhance environmental monitoring and support sound policymaking across the pan-European region.?These new guidelines provide a revised list of 230 environmental indicators, including 74 priority indicators with detailed metadata. The revised list includes indicators from various sources, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the European Environment Agency , the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Conference of European Statisticians. Read more
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Air pollution
Georgia receives support to reduce nitrogen pollution from agriculture
While nitrogen is vital for plant growth, excessive and inefficient use of this nutrient means up to 80% of it leaks into the environment, mostly in various polluting forms of nitrogen: ammonia and nitrogen oxides, which are harmful air pollutants; nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas; and nitrate, which affects water quality.??In the context of the?UNECE Air Convention, ammonia and nitrogen oxides are regulated by the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone. Provisions include setting up a national framework code for good agricultural practice to reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture.?To support Georgia with ratification and implementation of the Gothenburg Protocol and at the request of the country, UNECE recently organized a workshop to promote Georgia’s national Code of good agricultural practices, developed in line with the Convention’s?Ammonia Framework Code. Read more
Environment
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UNECE reviews the environmental performance of Mongolia for the second time
Following the decision of?Parties to the?UNECE Air Convention to revise the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol), which is expected to further strengthen efforts to reduce air pollution in Europe and North America, technical and scientific work has begun to support the revision process. At the recent 10th joint session of the scientific bodies?under the?Air Convention,?the?Steering Body to the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)?and the?Working Group on Effects (WGE), experts discussed scientific set a collective target for the pan-European region and North America to reduce air pollution-related health and ecosystem impacts by 50% by 2040, compared to 2015, as a starting point. Read more
Air pollution
Air pollution experts discuss updated reduction scenarios, climate impacts and nature restoration
Following the decision of?Parties to the?UNECE Air Convention to revise the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol), which is expected to further strengthen efforts to reduce air pollution in Europe and North America, technical and scientific work has begun to support the revision process. At the recent 10th joint session of the scientific bodies?under the?Air Convention,?the?Steering Body to the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)?and the?Working Group on Effects (WGE), experts discussed scientific set a collective target for the pan-European region and North America to reduce air pollution-related health and ecosystem impacts by 50 per cent by 2040, compared to 2015, as a starting point. Read more
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