United Nations Environmental Program ( UNEP ) - convened Intergovernmental Negotiating

Third Joint Fao/who/unep International Conference on Mycotoxins

1. The Third Joint FAO/WHO/UNEP International Conference on Mycotoxins was held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 3 to 6 March 1999. The Conference was convened by the DirectorsGeneral of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and was kindly hosted by the Government of the Republic of ...

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The international community has long recognized that desertifi cation is a major economic, social and environmental problem of concern to many countries in all regions of the world. The question of how to tackle desertifi cation was a major concern for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Conference supported a new, ...

Identifying Emerging Issues from the Perspective of the Small Island Developing States Expert Group Meeting co-hosted by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development.

Despite a long gestation period in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) and overall expenditures estimated at some $50 million for this Vienna held conference, there were no dramatic results. The Conference faced trying to reach some compromise agreement on the following main points: 1) a global information system, and governing princ...

Guest Editorial: The Legacy of Conflicts

rooms the misery of human suffering. When conflicts are over, the news usually concentrates on reconstruction issues. However, the legacy of conflicts might also include longer-term security threats, such as environmental degradation, damaged infrastructure, and conflict related risks to human health. Because of poor environmental administration in postconflict countries, environmental and heal...