UNEP, through its network of GRID centres, developed the GRID Meta data directory tool to provide both an electronic and hard copy catalogue of worldwide GRID data sources.

Local sources of content

The GRID Meta Database Management System will be implemented in 1996 and will provide a catalog (electronic and hard copy) of worldwide GRID data resources.

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GRID Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)

One operational GRID centre, GRID Warsaw, has been established and three more GRID centres will be established in 1997 at Budapest, Moscow and Tbilisi.

GRID Sioux Falls and EDC have compiled an exhaustive list that has been distributed to all GRID centres.

GRID Arendal also assists in the development of the coastal environmental information modelling system.

Source UNCTAD database.

The above mentioned GIS database can be accessed through the World Wide Web site of GRID Arendal.

Source Ozone Secretariat database.

10. Global knowledge base on mineral resource potential.

The list has been distributed to all GRID facilities around the world.

While GRID Bangkok, GRID Geneva, GRID Sioux Falls, GRID Arendal and GRID Nairobi were providing, as the major centres, Internet and World Wide Web access and File Transfer Protocol access at the end of 1997, GRID Sioux Falls continues to lead the activity in data provision, and from its award winning Internet site, over a million of freely available files have been transferred during the past two years.

Source UNCTAD database, based on Comtrade.

Database on financial sources. Objective maintain and disseminate a database of financial sources in order to increase the level and effectiveness of financing for CCD implementation.

The GRID facility at Arendal is assisting the Programme in developing the coastal environmental information modelling system.

Source UNCTAD, database on BITs.

Source Database of International Red Cross.

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Report on coalition of resources (E CN.16 1997 6)

GRID Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)

Electronic resources in the Library (number of databases)

We have pressed our indigenous intellectual resources to the service of development.

UNEP, through GRID Arendal, is continuing to refine the GIS database of the Baltic Sea catchment area.

The development of groundwater resources and the establishment of two reservoirs in rural districts has also improved the supply.

The fundamental life support systems were air, land resources, water, agricultural resources and a wholesome environment.

Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Database.

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UNEP will continue to enhance the dissemination of data and information of new GRID sites through the Internet and the World Wide Web as resources permit.

Indeed, our land is very generously endowed with hydrocarbon resources, but one should not think that Turkmenistan intends to acquire wealth only by actively trading in its natural resources.

Source World Bank, Global Development Finance 2005, online database.

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNCs database.

A dynamic information service system on resources and environment, with an emphasis on agro resources, is being developed, using remote sensing data to conduct a nationwide investigation of land resources in an effort to profile China s land resources on a macro scale.

The field surveys have been prepared on water, mineral and plant resources and indigenous African food crops.

In the northern Mediterranean, many databases are available in farming resources, land use and socio economic conditions.

New sources of funding are required, but so too is a better use of existing resources and the enactment of trade and debt measures that will enable Africa to generate and better reinvest its own resources.

UNEP, through GRID Sioux Falls, is collaborating with Environment Canada, the World Resources Institute and other organizations in the development of a global population database and a medium resolution population database of Africa in a GIS format.

Updating the local Magnatune database.

Updating the local Jamendo database.