In January 1996, the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) established the China Center for Environmental Management Systems (CCEMS), which aims to improve environmental protection programmes in China, to raise the technical standards in pollution control, and to increase the level of public education.

Two CGE members presented the Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) programme of the United States Agency for International Development.

UNEP will continue to operate its North American node of GRID in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Director General of the Environment

EPA reverses decision to delay smog rule after lawsuits

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational environmental satellite system comprises the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and the Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES).

Director General (Environment) Ministry of the Environment, Local Government and Rural

objectives.Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, quot Company environmental management as a basis for a different relationship between companies and governmental authorities quot , 1995, The Hague, Netherlands.

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reportedly stated that the Agency would ensure that the Department of Defense complies with federal environmental laws.

The stations will serve the information management needs of national and regional environment authorities, as well as UNEP headquarters and regional offices.

Central Environmental Authority Act.

General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority

UNEP, through GRID Sioux Falls, in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, USGS and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA of the United States), will continue the development of a global database on river basin boundaries.

Head, Meteorological and Environmental

These stations will serve more information management needs of national and regional environment authorities and UNEP headquarters and regional offices.

Several other agencies of the United States, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Environmental Protection Agency and the forest service, are also cooperating in this project.

Zou Shoumin, Director of the Bureau of Environmental Supervision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said on the 22nd in Beijing that on a nationwide basis, 57 cases were subject to consecutive daily fines. The newly amended Environmental Protection Law , implemented at the beginning of this year, has significantly enhanced environmental law enforcement efforts in China.

The ENVISAT satellite, of ESA, the largest satellite ever built for Earth observation purposes, provided environmental, weather and climate protection services to more than 90 States.

Transit environment in the landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit neighbours

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency administers a number of acts including the general Environmental Protection Act of 1991.

Following the Conference, a new system of environmental legislation had been created and a Strategy for a National Environmental Policy and a National Environmental Action Plan had been elaborated.

(d) Support to national environment administrations concerning environmental information systems and environmental policy formulation.

Director General and Chief Executive of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency

The chief Environmental Health Officer is responsible for the overall running of the Agency and is answerable to the Minister for the Environment and Health.

(i) Recurrent publications Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Judicial Decisions in Environment related Cases national casebooks on environmental law (4) newsletters highlighting UNEP wide environmental and capacity building activities pertaining to environmental education, environmental laws and water management (8) environmental emergencies newsletter highlighting UNEP relevant activities distributed to national Governments, key partners and national focal points (2)

UNEP has been assisting the Environment Protection Authority in Yemen and the Regional Organization for the Protection of Marine Environment in developing their frameworks for environmental information system.

The locations of the stations are as follows Geneva (Geneva Executive Centre, UNEP Regional Office for Europe), Nairobi (UNEP headquarters), Mexico City (UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean), Bangkok (UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific), Moscow (Federal Centre of Geoecological Systems, Ministry of the Environment of the Russian Federation) and Beijing (National Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of the Environment of China).

Radiology Specialist, Ministry of Public Health and the Environment of the Nation.

UNEP has also established a regional directory of environmental institutions, experts and data listed by country.

(d) Support to national environment administrations concerning environmental information systems and environmental policy formulation.

The Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, provided oversight of the investigation.

The term quot applicable environmental regulations quot refers to national and or local environmental regulations in the country of production.

4. At the national level, Trinidad and Tobago had been fostering ecologically sustainable development through the Environmental Management Authority.

The Icelandic authorities continue to work on protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems within their national jurisdiction.

An environment strategy has recently been drawn up and approved by the Government, together with a national environmental action plan.

GERMP is part of the implementation of the Environmental Action Plan prepared by the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

(i) Environmental protection at the national and international levels potentials and limits of criminal justice (two volumes) (priority theme A)

The Swedish Space Corporation, in co operation with the Swedish National Environmental Protection Agency and the local authorities, is in the process of establishing the Environmental Satellites Data Centre (MDC) in Kiruna.

UNEP is collaborating closely with the European Environment Agency (EEA), both in the production of GEO 4 and also on the Agency's next pan European report on environmental state and trends, which is being prepared for the fifth Environment Ministers Conference in late 2007.

UNEP, through GRID Sioux Falls, will maintain access to the world class expertise and unique facilities of the USGS Earth Resources Observation Satellite (EROS) Data Center, EPA, NASA and USFS, in the use of applied data and information technology for the benefit of developing countries.

(g) UNEP is developing a regional directory of environment institutions, experts and data, listed by country

The space debris environment to be encountered by Radarsat was defined using the ENVIRONET database of NASA.

Continuation of close cooperation between the State Sanitary Supervisory Body and the State Environmental Protection Supervisory Body including the participation of the former in the realization of state environment monitoring

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Member of the National Council of Environmental Protection.