Although the Unep report was delivered in August 2011, the implementation of its recommendations is proving to be a political, fiscal, legal and administrative challenge to the government.
None are expected to announce new targets on emissions in line with the reductions that the Unep report suggests are necessary.
Requirements of ISO/TS 14072 and the guidelines published by the UNEP were considered.
He also stressed that Shell's admission of liability for two spills had nothing to do with the Unep report.
Mr Usher, head of the Unep Finance Initiative, said that both sectors had recorded a good year.
The Work Programme section of the website describes the core activities that the UNEP FI focuses on.
[For more on the UNEP findings, see "Environmental Triage in Afghanistan," EHP 111 A470 A473 (2003).] For two years, Asif Ali Zaidi, UNEP's program manager in Afghanistan, has worked to help the government respond.
Ongoing efforts by African countries at the UNEP to eliminate lead from gasoline (UNEP 2009) are to be lauded, because they have greatly improved the cognitive potential of future generations of children.
Whereas the UNEP FI concentrates on financial institutions, the Global Compact, begun in 2000, works with industry and business directly.
The UNEP, along with the World Meteorological Foundation, founded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988.
The UNEP said countries could slash emissions through renewable energy and energy efficiency while maintaining economic growth.
