Bøger af United Nations: Economic Commission for Europe

Supports countries wishing to benchmark or update the legal framework of their national statistical systems. Based on a review of the current legal and institutional frameworks and the operational environment of statistical production, the Guidance identifies common elements of statistical legislation and their intended outcomes.

Presents the results of the initial reporting exercise on indicator 6.5.2 carried out in 2017-2018. The report offers insights into the progress achieved in establishing operational arrangements for transboundary waters, the gaps that remain; and highlights that an acceleration in strengthening transboundary water cooperation is needed.

Provides recommendations for the competent authorities for the installation and application of buoyage and marking on European inland waterways contained in the fifth revision of the European Code for Inland Waterways (CEVNI) (TRANS/SC.3/115/Rev.5).

The Road Safety Performance Reviews assessed the current road safety situation, helped the Governments concerned to identify the most critical road safety issues and recommended actions to be taken. This report covers conditions in Albania.

Since 2010, the ECE has been undertaking demand-driven national studies of regulatory and procedural barriers to trade. This study summarizes the key findings of the seventh study, which focuses on Georgia. It was prepared by the ECE secretariat in close consultation with public and private sector stakeholders.

The Road Safety Performance Reviews assessed the current road safety situation, helped the Governments concerned to identify the most critical road safety issues and recommended actions to be taken. This report covers conditions in Georgia.

To address the major urban challenges, UNECE and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) developed the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities. This report presents the first case study for this work and could be used as an example for cities with similar economic, environmental and socio-cultural development.

Contains a series of good practices and recommendations on effectively communicating the results of population projections. Here, ""communication"" encompasses not only how projections should be disseminated to users, but also what should be communicated.

Criteria and indicators constitute an increasingly common policy tool to implement sustainable forest management (SFM) and to define clear priorities and targets. These guidelines provide specific concepts, definitions, tools and reference materials to guide the development process of national criteria and indicator sets for SFM.

Presents the forest resources and the forest sector of the Caucasus and Central Asia, including trends in, and pressures on the resource, to describe the policies and institutions for the forest sector in the region and to list the major challenges the sector faces, and the policy responses in place or planned.

Provides country examples and best practices on measuring international labour mobility. The aim is to provide guidance and structure to the production of statistics on stocks and flows of international migrant workers and non-resident foreign workers within a country.

Provides precise and updated information on the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) serviced by the UNECE Sustainable Transport Division: on its historical background, its administrative and legal framework with a user's guide, and the three international UN Agreements administered by the World Forum.

Focusing primarily on the period from the collapse of the Soviet Union until the present day, this study identifies the key drivers of forest degradation and the potential for forest landscape restoration in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Provides the producers of population and housing censuses with guidance on the use of registers and administrative data for censuses, including operational, practical, technical and legal aspects. The publication was prepared by a task force composed of leading census experts from national statistical offices.

The objectives of this study are to further improve our understanding about the ways in which payments for ecosystem services schemes can be applied to forests, in particular focusing on forest's hydrological functions for the mutual benefit of both humans and the environment.

Provides an overview of existing Green Forest Jobs and identifies possible areas for future activities and jobs in the forest sector, and may serve as starting point for further analysis and discussion on the future of Green Forest Jobs.

This guidance aims to assist Parties in more effectively mitigating the effects of possible industrial accidents and the consequences on human health, the environment and cultural heritage within countries and across borders.

A tool for transport policy-makers from Landlocked Developing Countries and transit countries in the Euro-Asian region and beyond, in that it identifies the main commodity groups for the transport of which inland modes of transport can compete with maritime and aviation modes and provides analysis showing the economic advantage of inland routes.

Provides practical guidance on how to develop and maintain statistical business registers to support the production of business demography and entrepreneurship statistics. The guidelines contain definitions and compilation guidance for key demographic events and propose business demography indicators that can be produced directly from the register.

The majority of disasters are water-related with the flow of freshwater mostly occurring in transboundary basins. This Words into Action Guide aims to raise awareness on the importance of river basin management and transboundary cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction, while taking into account climate change adaptation.

Some countries have developed methods for combining administrative, statistical and other data sources for the production of migration statistics. This publication provides an overview of the ways that data integration is used to produce migration statistics, based on a survey of migration data providers in over 50 countries.

This publication highlights the use of wood for energy and includes the most recent statistics on wood energy markets across the UNECE region.

Assesses progress made by Albania in reconciling their economic and social development with environmental protection, as well as in meeting international commitments on environment and sustainable development.

Contains lessons from assessments of interlinkages, trade-offs and benefits in managing water, energy and land/agriculture, as well as protecting the environment in transboundary basins in Southern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and North Africa.

Presents and analyses the findings of the first pilot reporting exercise under the Water Convention, carried out in 2017. Progress made in the implementation of the Convention is reviewed and summarised, together with the identification of significant trends, success, challenges and opportunities concerning transboundary water cooperation.

Assesses progress made by individual countries, in this case Bosnia and Herzagovina, in reconciling their economic and social development with environmental protection, as well as in meeting international commitments on environment and sustainable development.

The first section describes the TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers) transit system, its coverage, objective and functioning and analyses possible future developments. The second section contains the complete text of the TIR Convention. The third section contains related resolutions and recommendations.

Summarises the findings to date on the main barriers to the use of gas in maritime transportation. The report demonstrates that in order to allow the use of LNG as marine fuel to grow, six key enablers need to be in place: access to LNG, reliable logistics, legal certainty, favourable investment climate, knowledge and skills, and public acceptance.

Tracks the indicators of each SDG 7 objective within the UNECE sub-regions. The report then goes further to identify the current status of sustainable energy across a broader set of energy indicators, identifies key issues along the energy value chain, and highlights UNECE country responses to initiate change.

It is increasingly important for policy makers to identify ways to leverage the benefits of renewable energy and at the same time preserve the affordability and reliability of electricity. Studies have explored coordinating fossil fuel fired power plants with renewable energy. This report presents several options for the northern hemisphere.