Developing space technologies for environmental protection.

(c) Engineers in charge of designing technologies for environmental projects

Environmental monitoring equipment is duty free, as are installations and equipment for environmental purification and alternative power source technologies.

In brief, the combination of biofuel and biomass technologies offers greater environmental benefits and the two technologies complement each other.

In addition, a geographical information system (GIS) environmental database is being developed and testing of other appropriate environmental technologies is under way.

(d) How can appropriate local technologies be developed that meet the quality, health and environmental requirements in importing markets, or is it preferable to transfer existing technologies?

Nuclear technologies and techniques are applied in Poland in various fields (health care, industry, environmental protection, agriculture).

The application of new, resource efficient and clean technologies is one of the keys to environmental sustainability.

(c) Participation in AFRICAGIS, the main international forum on GIS and environmental information system technologies in Africa

(c) Participation in AFRICAGIS, the main international forum on GIS and environmental information system (EIS) technologies in Africa

These technologies could include those already in use or new and untried technologies, and should result in efficiency gains or in a better environmental performance in the host country.

Drawing on local knowledge could help in choosing technologies that are suitable from both an environmental and cultural perspective.

The Environmental Information Circulation and Monitoring System on the Internet (SISEI) programme is a capacity building programme for African countries on the use of information technologies for environmental information management.

In this context, relatively small investments in implementing existing pollution control technologies could have huge environmental and public health benefits.

We have strengthened the verification system through enhanced use of satellite imagery, environmental sampling and a variety of new technologies.

It was noted that the introduction of new technologies in some countries was mitigating the adverse environmental impact of transport.

What synergy within the Convention and other multilateral environmental agreements might be pursued to enhance the work on technologies for adaptation?

It was also noted that the introduction of new technologies in some countries was reducing the adverse environmental impact of transport.

Through these efforts, we hope to expedite the transfer of environmentally sound technologies and to promote international cooperation for environmental protection.

We believe that the Project will make it possible to work out agreed approaches to prospective nuclear technologies from the standpoint of the economic efficiency and the environmental and non proliferation safety and security of such technologies.

Assessing mitigation and adaptation technologies methods for evaluating different technologies by determining, for example, performance, costs, and environmental impacts over time Parties may wish to refer to document FCC SBSTA 1996 4 for a definition of technology.

This will create important challenges for the development of cleaner technologies and improved environmental management systems, as well as for innovation and technology diffusion.

In addition, participants established an Asian Regional Task Force on Risk Assessment for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies.

Several experts noted that the selection of technologies is a multi criteria process involving a balance between environmental, economic, technical, financial and social considerations.

An additional document, Pilot Information Needs Survey Regarding Climate Relevant Technologies, was made available by the University of Amsterdam, IVAM Environmental Research, for information purposes.

They will also help the establishment of national implementation plans and programmes to promote the introduction and diffusion of best available technologies best environmental practices and ESTs, such as non combustion technologies to eliminate POP wastes and POP contaminated equipment.

Funded entirely by Italy, the Centre offered assistance in the areas of pure and applied chemistry, earth, environmental and marine science technologies and high technology systems.

In particular, they should provide technical assistance on soft terms for the transfer of environmentally friendly technologies which would consolidate environmental protection policies in developing countries.

For example, through easier sharing and transfer of knowledge and technologies, potential new win win alternatives exist to the traditional trade offs between growth and environmental sustainability.

The problem of relative environmental performance could be overcome either by setting up a proper review mechanism or by including entire plants or technologies in the list.

A AC.105 632 Use of remote sensing technologies for environmental applications, particularly in support of the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

(b) Assessing the current and future availability, accessibility, potential, costs, environmental impacts and implementation requirements of technologies for climate change adaptation, as well as opportunities for innovation

SIEP has collaborated with many non governmental organizations and community based organizations in water and solid waste management, environmental health, urban energy, transport and waste recycling technologies.

For example, the Indian Centre for Promotion of Cleaner Technologies (ICPCT), established in 1996 at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute of India (NEERI), founded in 1958 as part of the National Information Centre for Cleaner Technologies (NICCT)), has developed a database of 510 case studies on cleaner technologies, and is in the process of developing an information system.

UNIDO will focus on promoting modern technologies and processes that are cleaner and more environmentally sustainable, both within and outside the framework of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

Young people are committed to the principles of corporate social responsibility, as well as setting up environmental enterprises such as ecotourism and the wider adoption of green technologies.

They are also influenced by factors such as, inter alia, the international political situation, including peace and security issues the global and regional economic environment the development of new technologies, for example, information and communication technologies (ICT) and environmental issues, such as natural disasters.

In Iraq more than 300 government staff members have been trained recently in areas ranging from environmental impact and contaminated site assessments, to multilateral environmental agreements, biodiversity and remote sensing The UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre is undertaking a capacity building and technology support project in Viet Nam on resource augmentation, based on environmentally sound technologies.

Improved access for those countries to financial flows, the transfer of environmentally sound technologies and increased international cooperation in capacity building would help them to meet their environmental goals.

The availability, cost and diffusion of sustainable energy technologies will depend strongly on policy, including on energy costing policy that allows environmental impacts to be reflected in pricing structures.

There are three areas where transfer and effective use of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) could be of particular importance over the next few years addressing domestic environmental problems such as urban pollution enhancing energy and material efficiency and complying with environmental requirements in export markets.

The wide array of remote sensing information technologies could provide cost effective means for collecting information about the Earth apos s surface and for assessing a variety of environmental impacts.

It is the repository of cutting edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability. Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.

It was recognized that adaptation technologies should include both hard technologies and soft technologies, including processes and tools.

By actually taking the opportunity that new technologies, new interactive technologies, present to re script our interactions, to script them, not just as isolated, individuated interactions, but as collective aggregating actions that can amount to something, we can really begin to address some of our important environmental challenges.