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Sunday 04 February 2001
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Headquarters at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. |
Watch
for IISD coverage of the 21st Session of the UNEP Governing Council, Global
Ministerial Environmental Forum. Coverage will commence with an introductory
summary on Sunday 04 February 2001, and will continue throughout the week
with a Summary Report after the Governing Council adjourns.
Background:
The UNEP
Governing Council was established in accordance with General Assembly
Resolution 2997 (XXVII) (Institutional and financial arrangements for
international environmental co-operation) of 15 December 1975. Governing
Council reports to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social
Council.
The UNEP Governing Council has the following main functions and
responsibilities:
- to
promote international cooperation in the field of the environment and to
recommend, as appropriate, policies to this end;
- to
provide general policy guidance for the direction and coordination of
environmental programmes within the United Nations system;
- to
receive and review the periodic reports of the Executive Director of
UNEP, on the implementation of environmental programmes with the United
Nations system;
- to
keep under review the world environmental situation in order to ensure
that emerging environmental problems of wide international significance
receive appropriate and adequate consideration by Governments;
- to
promote the contribution of the relevant international scientific and
other professional communities to the acquisition, assessment and
exchange of environmental knowledge and information and, as appropriate,
to the technical aspects of the formulation and implementation of
environmental programmes with the United Nations system;
- to
maintain under continuing review the impact of national and
international environmental policies and measure on developing
countries, as well as the problem of additional costs that may be
incurred by developing countries in the implementation of environmental
programmes and projects, and to ensure that such programmes and projects
shall be compatible with the development plans and priorities of those
countries; and
- to
review and approve every two years the programme utilization of
resources of the Environment Fund.
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