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Documents
relevant to Earthwatch
General Assembly
 UN
General Assembly Resolution 53/242. Report
of the Secretary-General on environment and human settlements - 28
July 1999 A/RES/53/242
UN
General Assembly Resolution 44/224. International
co-operation in the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of
environmental threats and in assistance in cases of environmental
emergency -22 December 1989 A/RES/44/224
General documents
Agenda
21
Report
of the Secretary-General to the UN General Assembly on UN Reform:
Environment and Human Settlements - 6
October 1998 (extract): Information,
monitoring, assessment and early warning
UN
Task Force on Environment and Human Settlements, Report to
the Secretary-General, 15 June 1998 (extract): Information,
monitoring, assessment and early warning
Administrative
Committee on Coordination Report to UNEP Governing Council 1995 on International
Cooperation in the Field of the Environment: The United Nations
System-Wide Earthwatch. UNEP/GC.18/33 Annex
Report
of the Commission on Sustainable Development, Third Session, 1995 (extract) Information
for Decision-making
Report
of the Secretary-General to the Commission on Sustainable Development,
Third Session, 11-28 April 1995 on Information
for decision-making and EarthwatchE/CN.17/1995/18
Earthwatch
1972-1992 - Review of the development of Earthwatch
prepared for the UNEP Annual Report 1992
Earthwatch
Twenty-Five Years On: Between Science and International Environmental
Governance by Jan Stefan Fritz, IIASA Report IR-97-059. 1997 [can
be down-loaded from IIASA Web site]. A revised version
has been published in International Environmental Affairs (Volume
10, Number 3, pp. 173-196 - Summer 1998).
Second
Report on International Scientific Advisory Processes on Environment
and Sustainable Development - December
2000
News
Bulletin
Bulletin May
2003 (pdf-451 kb)
Working
Party
Seventh
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (Geneva, 10-11
December 2001)
Information
Documents (in word format)
Sixth
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (Geneva, 13-14
March 2000)
- Report UNEP/EWWP6/7
- Progress Report on the UN System-wide
Earthwatch 1999-2000 UNEP/EWWP6/2
- Review of Information for Decision-making
for CSD-9 UNEP/EWWP6/3
- UNEP Environmental Observing
and Assessment Strategy UNEP/EWWP6/4
- Scope and Outline of Global Environment
Outlook-3 UNEP/EWWP6/5
- IACSD action relevant to Earthwatch UNEP/EWWP6/6
- Implementation of decisions of
the Earthwatch Working Party UNEP/EWWP6/Inf.1
- Second Report on International
Scientific Advisory Processes on Environment and Sustainable Development -
Draft Outline UNEP/EWWP6/Inf.2 [full report now
available]
- The Global Ocean Observing System.
1999 Annual Report to Earthwatch Working Party. UNEP/EWWP6/Inf.3
- Report of the International
Workshop on CSD Indicators of Sustainable Development (Barbados, 7-9
December 1999)
- Progress Report on the Implementation of the CSD Work Programme on Indicators
of Sustainable Development to the Eighth Session of the Commission on Sustainable
Development (24 April-5 May 2000) Background Paper No. 7
Fifth
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (Geneva, 3-4
May 1999)
- Report UNEP/EWWP5/6 and
UNEP/DEIA&EW/MR.99-1
- Progress Report on the UN System-wide
Earthwatch 1994-1999 UNEP/EWWP5/2
- Initiation of preparations for
the ninth session of the CSD on the cross-sectoral theme ofInformation for
Decision-Making UNEP/EWWP5/3
- UNEP Environmental Observing
and Assessment Strategy UNEP/EWWP5/4
- Relevant decisions of other bodies UNEP/EWWP5/5
- Earthwatch Strategic Framework
for Environmental Observing, Assessment and Reporting UNEP/EWWP5/Inf.2
- Draft UN System-wide Earthwatch
Directory of Partners UNEP/EWWP5/Inf.3
- Earthwatch inputs to GEO-2 UNEP/EWWP5/Inf.4
Fourth
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (Geneva, 2-3
April 1998)
- Report UNEP/EWWP4/8
and UNEP/DEIA/MR.98-3
- Progress Report 1996-1998 UNEP/EWWP4/2
- Extracts relevant to Information
for Decision-making from The Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda
21 (UNGASS 1997) UNEP/EWWP4/3
- Report on International Scientific
Advisory Processes on the Environment and Sustainable Development UNEP/EWWP4/4
[see also revised report - Dec. 2000]
- UN system review and input to
the Global Environment Outlook 2 UNEP/EWWP4/5
- Major environmental assessments UNEP/EWWP4/6
- Electronic information networking UNEP/EWWP4/7
- Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
UNEP/EWWP4/Inf.1
Decisions
of the Inter-Agency Committee on Sustainable Development (Twelfth
Meeting, Geneva, 28-29 September 1998)
on the Report of the Earthwatch
Working Party
Third
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (New York, 17-18
January 1996)
- Report UNEP/DEIA/MR.96-1
- Progress Report UNEP/EWWP3/1
- Proposals for an Earthwatch World
Wide Web Site UNEP/EWWP3/2
- Conceptual evolution of a UN information
system UNEP/EWWP3/3
- Possible mechanisms for early
warning on environmental issues UNEP/EWWP3/4
- The Global Observing Systems UNEP/EWWP3/5/rev.1
- Proposals for a virtual Earthwatch
Working Party UNEP/EWWP3/6
Second
Meeting of the Earthwatch Working Party (Geneva, 22-23
March 1995)
- Report UNEP/EWWP2/3
and UNEP/EAP.MR/95-7
- Progress Report UNEP/EWWP2/WP.1
- UN System-wide Earthwatch Programme Document UNEP/EWWP2/WP.2/rev.1
[replaced by new edition - contents available on this web site,
including the Organization and UN
Partners pages]
- Earthwatch 2000 Campaign: A Proposal
for a Participatory Assessment of the Planet
First
Meeting of the Earthwatch Inter-Agency Working Party (Geneva, 1-2
June 1994)
- Report UNEP/EAP.MR.94.3
- Working Paper UNEP/EWWP1/WP1
Other
Earthwatch related meetings
International
Expert Meeting on Information for Decision-making and Participation (Ottawa,
Canada, 25-28 September 2000). Background
Paper
Inter-Agency
Committee on Sustainable Development, Sixteenth Meeting (Geneva, 18-19
September 2000) Common
Core Data Sets (briefing prepared by UNEP)
UNEP
Planning Workshop on Environmental Information Systems (Geneva, 15-17
March 2000)
Report
of the Inter-Agency Committee on Sustainable Development,
Twelfth Meeting (Geneva, 28-29 September
1998) ACC/1998/12, and Thirteenth Meeting (New York, 8-9
March 1999). Extracts on Report
of the Earthwatch Working Party
DPCSD/UNEP Workshop
on Information for Sustainable Development and Earthwatch (Geneva, 24
September 1996) Report UNEP/DEIA/MR.96-12
Report
of the First IEA/GEO Core Data Working Group (DWG) Meeting (New
York, 22-23 January 1996)
DPCSD/UNEP Meeting
on Common/Compatible Systems of Access to Data (New York, 19
January 1996) Report UNEP/DEIA/MR.96-2
UNEP/UNSTAT Consultative
Expert Group Meeting on Environmental and Sustainable Development
Indicators (Geneva, 6-8 December
1993)
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