Selected Documents

Issue title: 15th UNEP GC – Important Decisions

Article type: Research Article

Abstract: UNEP 15th Session of Governing Council: Extracts from Decisions on: • Global Climate Change 118 • Additional Sources of Funding 119 • Provision of Language Facilities 119 • Reports of the Administrative Committee on Co-Operation 119 • The Programme and Programme Support Costs 119 • State-of-the Environment Reports 120 • Implementation of Resolutions and Decisions of Direct Relevance to UNEP Adopted by the General Assembly at its 42nd and 43rd Sessions and by ECOSOC at its 1987 and 1988 Sessions 120 • Management of the Environment Fund in 1988–1989 and Use of Resources in 1990–1993 123 • Environmental Impact Assessment 123 • International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals 123 • Promotion of the Transfer of Environmental Protection Technology 124 • International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (Amended Ojectives and Strategies) 124 • International Legal Instruments in the held of the Environment 124 • Regional and Subregional Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean 125 • Programme Budget Document 1990–1991 125 • INFOTERRA 125 • Environmentally Harmful Chemical Substances, Processes and Phenomena of Global Significance 125 • Environmentally Safe Management of Chemicals, in Particular those that are Banned and Severely Restricted, in International Trade 125 • Industrial Accidents 126 • Report of the Secretary-General on the Effects on the Environment of the Dumping of Nuclear Wastes 126 • Economic Crisis, Foreign Debt and Environment 126 • Special Session of the Governing Council in 1990 126 • Strengthening the Role and Effectiveness of UNEP 126 • Catalytic and Co-ordinating Role of UNEP 127 • Role of the Governing Council 127 • UNEP National Committees 127 • Areas of Concentration 127 • Fund Targets for 1992 127 • Supplementary Programme of Environment Fund Activities, 1990–1991 127 • UN Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance 127 • 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (and Annex) 128 • Contribution of the UNEP Governing Council to the Preparation of an International Development Strategy for the Fourth UN Development Decade 128 • The Clearing-House Function 129 • Progress on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes 129 • Shared Natural Resources and Legal Aspects of Offshore Mining and Drilling 129 • System-Wide Medium-Term Environment Programme for the Period 1990–1995 130 • Preparation of an International Legal Instrument on Biological Diversity of the Planet 130 • Precautionary Approach to Marine Pollution with Waste Dumping at Sea 130 • Report on the Progress in Protection of the Ozone Layer 130 • Protection Against Devastating Effects of Chemical and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction 131 UN • Arms Race and Military Expenditures (Extracts from Study) 131 • Climatic and Other Global Effects of Nuclear War (Extracts from Study) 134 Latin America/Caribbean • Declaration of Brasilia 135 Nordic Countries • Co-operation in the Event of Accidents (Agreement) 136 Helsinki Declaration on the Protection of the Ozone Layer 137 International Law and the Environment – Final Conference Statement 138 IPU • The Hague Declaration on Tourism 138

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-1989-193-405

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 19, no. 3-4, pp. 118-139, 1989