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Following the publication of Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in February 2007, a "Paris Call for Action" read out by French President Chirac and supported by 46 countries, called for the United Nations Environment Programme to be replaced by a new and more powerful United Nations Environment Organization (UNEO), to be modelled on the World Health Organization. The 52 countries included the European Union nations, but notably did not include the United States, China, Brasil, Russia, and India, the top five emitters of greenhouse gases.[1]
It scope also in clean renewable energy.
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IREO
An International Renewables and Environment Organization (IREO), with the 52 initial countries, can be the first step to UNEO.
See also
- Global warming
- International Sustainable Energy Agency
- Reform of the United Nations
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
References
- ^ Doyle, Alister (2007-02-03). "46 nations call for tougher U.N. environment role", Reuters.
- Uneo -- Towards an International Environment Organization: Approaches to a Sustainable Reform of Global Environmental Governance by Andreas Rechkemmer (Ed.), Nomos Publishers ([1] ,[2]),2005, ISBN 978-3-8329-1120-1, 310 S., brosch.
External links
- Going Beyond the Borders of Sovereignty: the need for a United Nations Environment Organization.
- EU Presidency Statement - United Nations 62nd General Assembly: General Debate, 15, pursuing the upgrading of UNEP to a UNEO.
- http://www.franceonu.org/IMG/pdf/Lettre_ONUE.pdf
- http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france-priorities_1/environment-sustainable-development_1097/united-nations-environment-organization-uneo_1966/index.html
- http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/elysee.fr/anglais/speeches_and_documents/2006/g8_saint_petersbourg/french_memorandum_on_the_united_nations_environment_organisation-uneo.55955.html
- http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/article-imprim.php3?id_article=1362
- Group of Friends of the UNEO
- Implications of a UNEO for the global architecture of the international environmental governance system.
- A UN Environment Organization, by Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf and Markus Knigge. Excerpts from "Global Environmental Governance - Perspectives on the Current Debate", Published in 2007 by the Center for UN Reform Education.
- http://www.agirpourlenvironnement.org
- http://www.ecologic-events.de/ieg-conference/en/documents/uneo_france_chair_summary.pdf
- http://www.ecologic.de/download/projekte/200-249/221-01/221-01-report.pdf
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