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Building an Environmental Institutional Framework for the Future*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Mostafa K. Tolba
Affiliation:
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.

Extract

Among the prerequisites to building an effective environmental institutional framework for the twenty-first century, our current thinking singles out the following eight for prior consideration:

1) Improvement of coordination — after due strengthening where necessary — of the existing global monitoring and environmental assessment facilities both within and outside the United Nations system.

Type
Main Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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References

* Substance of the Third Baer–Huxley Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr Tolba in the main auditorium of the Hotel Agro, Budapest, Hungary, on 25 April 1990, in connection with the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Future, with your Editor in the Chair, and several environmental ministers etc. of Eastern European countries in attendance. Complete with introduction, concluding remarks, and discussion, the Lecture will reappear in the Proceedings of the Conference, to be published by the Edinburgh University Press. — Ed.