At its recently concluded third session in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Forum on Forests unff took a step towards the creation of a legally binding instrument. An ad hoc expert group was established to consider the parameters of a mandate for
It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an American engineered war in which the un was sidelined and the us paid scant regard to the views of even its t
A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks at recent attempts to revitalise it
New Zealand s minister for the environment Simon Upton is the chairperson of the seventh session of the Commission on Sustainable Development CSD 7 , which is scheduled to meet at the United Nations, New York, in April th
Poor environmental conditions would increase human health risks, warns a study jointly conducted by the World Resource Institute (WRI), the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations
