Selected Documents

Abstract

UNEP Governing Council

Decisions of Sixteenth Session on:

• UN Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance 161

• Assistance to Bangladesh on Environmental Matters in the Wake of the Devastating Cyclone 161

• Contribution of UNEP to International Co-operation to Address and Mitigate the Consequences of the Accident at tbe Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 161

• The Environment Fund: Use of Resources 162

• Programme and Programme Support Costs 163

• Global Environmental Facility 163

• Trusts Funds 164

• Regional and Subregional Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean 164

• “Children and the Environment” 165

• “The State of the World Environment 1991” 165

• The 1992 and 1993 State-Of-The-Environment Reports 165

• Effects of Chemical Weapons on Human Health and the Environment 165

• Reports of the Administrative Committee on Co-Ordination 165

• Cholera and Microbial Pollution of the Coastal Waters of the South-East Pacific 166

• Rationalisation of Governing Council Documentation 166

• Comprehensive Approach to Hazardous Waste 166

• Strategies for the Protection and Development of the Oceans and Coastal Areas 167

• Provisional Agenda, Date and Place of the 17th Session of the Governing Council 167

• Military Conflicts and the Environment 167

• Review of the Organisation and Management of UNEP 167

• Co-operation Between UNEP and Habitat 168

• Industrial Accidents 168

• Improvement and Harmonisation of Environmental Measurements 168

• List of Selected Environmentally Harmful Chemical Substances, Processes and Phenomena of Global Significance 168

• GRID Programme Activity Centre 169

• Industry and Environment Programme Activity Centre 169

• Environmental Law and Institutions Programme Activity Centre 169

• International Convention and Protocols in the Field of the Environment 169

• Desertification (four decisions) 170

• Preparation of an International Legal Instrument on Biological Diversity 171

• Transfer of Environmentally Sound Industrial Production Technology 171

• Programme Budget of UNEP for the biennium 1992–1993 and Supplementary Programme for the biennium 1990–1991 171

• Freshwater Resources 171

• Regional Activities within the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Related to Changes in the Global Life-supporting System 171

• Expansion to the Central American Pacific of the Action Plan for the South-East Pacific 172

• Report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly on possible Adverse Effects of Sea-level Rise 173

• Modification by the GA of the Medium-term Plan of UNEP 173

• Protection of the Ozone Layer 173

• Climate Change 173

• Sea-level Rise Vulnerability Assessments 174

• Oceans and Coastal Areas 174

• Early Warning and Forecasting of Environmental Emergencies 174

• Toxic Chemcials 175

• Hazardous Waste 175

OECD

• Pollution Insurance and Compensation Funds for Accidental Pollution (Extracts for the Report by the OECD Environment Committee) 176

Antarctica

• Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Extracted Articles) 178

WICEM II

• Final Declaration 179

Tlatelolco Platform on Environment and Development 181