Selected Documents

Issue title: UNEP: 16th Governing Council

Article type: Research Article

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

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-1991-213-406

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 21, no. 3-4, pp. 161-184, 1991