(ii) working in diverse and multicultural environments,

22 16 Environment and cultural diversity

Social and environmental factors in diversification

The international trading environment and commodity diversification

The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment implements an active policy aimed at a diverse staff composition.

Because it's heterogeneous, and that's the perfect substrate for evolution within the cancer.

The global environment is one of diversity in culture, religion, political system and economic conditions.

There are now more than 400 regional and universal multilateral environmental treaties in force, covering a broad range of environmental issues, including biodiversity, climate change and desertification.

13. A proper macroeconomic environment was essential for successful vertical diversification in the food processing industry.

These include the UNEP regional seas conventions, and also the biodiversity and chemicals related multilateral environmental agreements.

Changes occurring in environmental processes are better understood if due account is taken of the interactions between climate, biological diversity and land degradation.

International civil servants were required to work in a multicultural and multilingual environment, and therefore could not be compared with national civil servants.

Cultural diversity was considered important in upgrading neighbourhoods.

F of decision VII 16 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention), which, among other things, incorporate biodiversity related issues into environmental assessments.

Work environment

This setting differs substantially from the environment in which earlier generations of developing countries had embarked upon, and succeeded in, diversifying their economies.

The links between the environment, cultural and biological diversity and sustainable development have been identified by UNEP, which promotes an integrated ecosystem approach.

59 See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992.

A set of controls designed to operate in a manual environment may not be effective in an automated environment.

As the process of globalization has continued, there has been a diversification in the circumstances prevailing in many countries, in the activities and impact of criminal groups and in the structure and approach within and among criminal groups.

They were also introduced to the substantive work programmes of the United Nations and to the working environment of an international and multicultural organization.

A variety of proposals for organizing group work in different circumstances

B. UNEP support for overall SAICM implementation

The global environmental agenda also calls for the pressing issues of desertification, biodiversity and climate change to be addressed.

(c) Environment land degradation, soil erosion, forestry, biodiversity, coastal deterioration, natural disasters and heritage.

UNEP WCMC also provides assessment support to the multilateral environmental agreements, including work on the Global Biodiversity Outlook of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the CITES periodic trade analysisand the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) species assessment compilation.

50. In the countries visited, environmental NGOs focused on issues related to desertification, the urban environment, biodiversity, women and the environment. They also had programmes on unsafe pesticides.

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

These include climate change, ozone depletion, chemical issues and loss of biodiversity.

One. The working conditions are bad.

(ii) Work on environmental hazards

UNEP, through its biodiversity arm at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), has produced a number of assessments focusing on species and ecosystems biodiversity including

Since the GEF is the financial mechanism for the CBD, GEF projects emphasized the prevention and control of land degradation by developing sustainable use methods that conserved terrestrial biodiversity.

The environment in which UNICEF staff worked had become more complex, more politicized and more dangerous.

In Iraq more than 300 government staff members have been trained recently in areas ranging from environmental impact and contaminated site assessments, to multilateral environmental agreements, biodiversity and remote sensing The UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre is undertaking a capacity building and technology support project in Viet Nam on resource augmentation, based on environmentally sound technologies.

Similarly, capitalized environmental costs recognized as a separate asset should also be tested for impairment.

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

In addition, approval and implementation of environmental project(s) supported by GEF, especially in wetlands biodiversity, will be a critical indicator of success.

1987 As member, UNEP Working Group of Legal Experts on Environmental Law environmental impact assessment.

Pollution, energy shortage, environmental diversity, poverty.

GEF serves as the operational entity for several major multilateral environmental agreements.

The mission would be aimed at demonstrating the efficiency of optimized multi spectral observation and would be known as the Vegetation and Environment Monitoring New Micro Satellite (VENUS).

However, what we do have now is a much more variegated media ecosystem in which to kind of create this kind of value, and it's much fairer.

Workshop on cultural, environmental and social impact assessments based on the Akwé Kon Voluntary Guidelines aimed at further strengthening the understanding of the link between environment and cultural diversity6

(ii) Monitoring of work places for environmental protection