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Belgrade Review Tool: Enhancing Consultation in Environmental Development

Explore the innovative Belgrade Review Tool, implementing Aarhus Convention requirements with a focus on key environmental issues like energy, transport, water, and waste. Benefit from online commenting and events updates.

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Belgrade Review Tool: Enhancing Consultation in Environmental Development

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  1. Belgrade review process – Novelties • Development and use of the Belgrade review tool (widening the scope of the consultation NGOs, academia, research) • A first attempt in implementing the Aarhus convention requirements • See: http://ewindows.eu.org/belgrade07

  2. Languages Click on the chapter title to leave comments Login with your CIRCA username and password

  3. Entering a chapter On-line commenting Off-line commenting

  4. Some advantages of online commenting • Automatic translation of comments and answers (Russian <-> English); • Comments listed chronologically with Username and date; • Comments immediately visible to all; • Statistics generated on: countries, organisations, languages, number of comments, relevance as per Author evaluation.

  5. Belgrade review process – Events Two dedicated consultation meetings funded under EU TACIS activity: • EECCA NGOs &others 16-17 Nov; • Special session UNECE/WGEMA 27-29 Nov; See : http://ewindows.eu.org/belgrade07/eecca/tacis/tacis_06/fol179451/fol351404

  6. General comments Key messages – general acceptance & suggestions for new ones (Biodiversity, waste and SCP) Issues of high relevance: CC, Energy, Transport , Air, Water, Chemicals, Waste and SCP Issues of low relevance: marine, agriculture, biodiversity Data and information issues: - further data checking Transport & Air; - additional information to be provided by participants (mainly project-based results) - case studies/good practices: many identified (to be provided )

  7. Comments /topics Highlighted issues/cross cutting linkages: • CC vs. poverty; vs. desertification; Green investment schemes: innovative • Energy vs. poverty; vs. modernization • Energy: focus on effectiveness of production and use • Energy: focus renewable (including future prospects) • Energy: nuclear a questionable issue – attention!

  8. Comments /topics Highlighted issues/cross cutting linkages: • Transport vs. poverty and remittances (gap between regulation and implementation); • Transport by pipelines and possible impact of future trends; • Air quality (also indoor) and health/poverty

  9. Comments /topics • Health – Chernobyl case – sensitive in the use of information source (WHO criticised) • Linkages: • Outdoor & indoor air quality and health impact • Transport, leaded fuel & health impact (better reflected) • Institutional aspects, lack of cooperation and coordination between gov.bodies on env.health education (OECD connection)

  10. Comments /topics • Health impact - cross cutting aspects across various reports due for 2007 (OECD, UNEP/EEA, WHO) • ESD – showing similar evolution as the env. development (need for working together and sharing responsibility) • ESD: 3 main instruments: education, awareness raising (targeted to emerging issues and various social groups) and training/re-training • ESD – pillar to Aarhus implementation • ESD section- to be produced as a joint effort

  11. Comments /topics Chemicals (additional information needed) • More focus on POPs than heavy metals • Reflect better the situation due to military industry/ space centers/uranium deposits sites • Reflect sub-regional situation of chemical industry in EECCA Soil • better info needed on radioactive pollution; • better linkage with other chapters/sections

  12. Comments /topics Biodiversity • More focus on protected areas: targets, efficiency of protection measures using indicators; relationship with agriculture; funding available • Focus on threatened endemic species rather than invasive species

  13. Comments /topics Water(additional data and info needed) • More focus on drinking water (especially in rural areas), floods, mountain ecosystems; • A key message should address investments needs in rural areas; • Consider the national order of priority : (a) water supply, (b) water treatment, (c) sludge management; Agriculture - consequence of migration from rural to urban and need for land reforms;

  14. Comments /topics Waste, use of natural resources, SCP • Very relevant topic; better nuance the key messages and strengthen conclusions; • On waste - challenges on both policy options as well as awareness & technology & management; • More on trade & environmental impacts ; • Future of the NAPs on SCP???

  15. From consultation…to dissemination From June 2007 the Belgrade review tool will be use for dissemination of the report • In English • In Russian

  16. Belgrade 07 Belgrade 07 From June 2007

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