International environmental governance

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Item 7 International environmental governance

SS.VII 1 International environmental governance (subprogrammes 2 and 5)

International environmental governance is an integral part of realizing sustainable development.

Kenya fully endorses the ongoing process of defining the elements of international environmental governance.

The National Environmental Management Act of South Africa, for example, has been an enabling act aiming at improving environmental management while facilitating sustainable development and improving coordination and governance of environmental issues.

To that end, Nigeria took the view that the international environmental governance process must be accelerated.

Notes that the Governing Council, at its twenty third session, discussed all components of the recommendations on international environmental governance as contained in its decision SS.VII 1, and notes also that reporting on international environmental governance is included in the agenda of its ninth special session

While there was a need to strengthen UNEP to enable it to respond adequately to environmental challenges, the implementation of the International Environmental Governance (IEG) process would contribute in that regard.

The Council Forum will have before it the report of the Executive Director on progress made in the implementation of Governing Council decisions concerning international environmental governance (contained in document UNEP GCSS.IX 3), as mandated by decision 23 1 (Implementation of decision SS.VII 1 on international environmental governance).

Good governance, with a clear articulation of the principles of environmental and social responsibility, are prerequisites for sustainable forest management.

The interim Government's programme emphasized good governance, poverty reduction and environmental protection, all priority areas of the Brussels Programme of Action.

National Governments had the principal responsibility for environmental governance and measures taken at the national level made the greatest contribution to it.

2. Notes that the Governing Council, at its twenty third session, discussed all components of the recommendations on international environmental governance as contained in its decision SS.VII 1,Ibid., Fifty seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (A 57 25), annex I. and notes also that reporting on international environmental governance is included in the agenda of its ninth special session

We agree to ensure stronger system wide coherence by implementing the following measures at the policy, operational and humanitarian, and international environmental governance levels

Along with others, Hungary favours a more coherent institutional framework of international environmental governance, leading to the establishment of a United Nations environment organization.

(e) To promote the implementation of the outcome of the international environmental governance process in enhancing delivery of the capacity building initiatives of UNEP.

The strengthening of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and further development of international environmental governance is a particularly important requirement for setting in place strong institutional arrangements capable of ensuring that environmental sustainability considerations can be mainstreamed.

(e) Governance for sustainable development must be improved through institutional reforms, legal instruments, national and regional agreements and the integration of social, economic and environmental agendas.

We agree to ensure stronger system wide coherence by implementing the following measures at the policy, operational and humanitarian as well as international environmental governance levels

The relevant recommendations of the report are focused on only three issues energy, international environmental governance (IEG) and the Kyoto Protocol, and, thus, are not all encompassing.

The concept of corporate responsibility (CR) involves a broad range of fundamental social and economic development issues, including human rights, labour rights, environmental protection and good governance.

The issue of international environmental governance, including a new global entity or agency on environment, was dealt with comprehensively in the IEG process leading to the Johannesburg Summit.

A wider discussion of the root causes of the weaknesses in environmental governance should be undertaken before seriously entertaining the idea of transforming UNEP into a specialized agency.

In addition, governments and regulators should adopt policies ensuring sustainable financial sector practices, including annual reporting by companies and investors on environmental, social, and governance issues and due diligence and risk models regarding environmental hazards. Consideration of the possibility of stranded assets must be systematically expanded.

Already in 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, emphasized the need for a more coherent institutional framework of international environmental governance, with better coordination and monitoring.

Recognizing the need for a more coherent institutional framework of international environmental governance, with better coordination and monitoring, and considering the possibility of a more integrated structure as proposed by the Secretary General, in particular for environmental standard setting, scientific discussion and monitoring, that is built on existing institutions

The Executive Director also recommends that the ministerial consultations should reconvene in the form of a working dinner, in the evening of Wednesday, 8 February 2006, to consider environmental governance and issues of relevance to the outcome of the 2005 World Summit, to address expanded issues under provisional agenda item 7 (International environmental governance), with a particular focus on the issue of universal membership of the Governing Council Global Ministerial Environment Forum.

These principles could be applied in the areas of economic development, education, environmental stewardship, and governance, for example, to generate development goals and construct new indicators to measure progress towards these goals.

Schering Plough's Corporate Governance Guidelines and Standards of Global Business Practices contains environmental provisions that could serve as an analogue for provisions on biological weapons (http phx.corporate ir.net phoenix.zhtml?c 89839 p irol govhighlights ).

His delegation understood the importance of improving global environmental governance and supported the Secretary General's idea of creating a global early warning system, in the context of a revamped International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Kenya endorsed the ongoing process of international environmental governance within the framework of the Cartagena Decision, and thought that UNEP should be strengthened within its current mandate from an enhanced financial and scientific base.

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(c) Factors limiting the contribution of fisheries to sustainable development (for example, overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, governance and policy issues, and environmental issues linked to aquaculture) (see A 60 63, paras. 209 222)

We are determined to reduce disaster losses of lives and other social, economic and environmental assets worldwide, mindful of the importance of international cooperation, solidarity and partnership, as well as good governance at all levels.

Strengthening international environmental governance must involve a wide range of stakeholders with diverse interests the system should be reformed in an evolutionary manner without making immediate demands of the United Nations system or Member States.

Affirming the need to strengthen the cooperation that already exists between entities of the United Nations system and the Pacific Islands Forum in the areas of peace and security, sustainable development, environmental protection and good governance,

Creating jobs to address poverty and strengthen democratic governance in the least developed countries is beneficial to the most developed countries, because social instability and environmental devastation will increase illegal immigration, in turn increasing global stability.

The proposal of the Secretary General on the governance of the global environment requires an in depth and thorough analysis, since there are differences of view with regard to the root causes of global environmental problems.

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