Traduction de «global environment facility replenishment » (Anglais → Français) :

The third replenishment of the Global Environment Facility concluded in August 2002 with the largest ever replenishment in its history.

WELCOMING the successful and substantial third replenishment of the Global Environment Facility, completed in Washington on 7 August 2002 with a historically high level amounting to USD 2.92 billion , as well as the announcement by a number of EU Member States to take action to ensure additional voluntary contributions totalling USD 80 million, allowing the third replenishment of the GEF to reach its original objective of USD 3 billion, and NOTING with satisfaction the increased level of funds which is thereby made available for activities addressi ...[+++]ng global environment problems, including climate change;

24. Welcomes the European Council"s commitment to the success, and the ambitious agenda, of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg, and notably the new positive emphasis on replenishing the Global Environment Facility; stresses the overwhelming priority which must be given to the alleviation of poverty and hunger and the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources, and emphasises the need to secure a final agreement which sets specific targets for measures to assist the alleviation of poverty and hunger, and to promote the sustainable use of natural resources;

The European Council also stresses the need to ensure the successful replenishment of the Global Environment Facility, to enable it to meet the funding requirements of new and existing areas of action.

44. Welcomes in principle the EU’s commitment to replenishing the Global Environment Facility (GEF) by at least 50% this year but insists that the integration of additional tasks such as the Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP) Convention, land degradation, deforestation and possibly desertification, can only be accepted on condition that substantial supplementary resources are made available;

Thus Member States should endeavour to ensure sustainable forestry management on a national basis; 12. INTEND to give priority to a fast implementation and follow-up of the resolutions adopted at the Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe (Helsinki, June 1993); 13. WELCOME the draft Council Regulation on operations to promote tropical forests, which will enable the Community to play a more active role within the field of tropical forestry on a sustainable basis and in particular promote Community policies within this field; 14. REAFFIRM the undertaking of the Community and its Member States to participate actively in the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Convention on Desertificat ...[+++]ion which is due to be opened for signature in Paris in June 1994; 15. UNDERLINE the fact that the effective use of financial resources and their delivery are decisive for meeting the environmental goals set at the UNCED Conference and WELCOME that the Development Council on 25 May confirmed that following the global financial commitment of ECU 3 billion made in Rio, the Community and its Member States would provide an initial tranche of ECU 600 million in 1993 for specific projects and programmes in key Agenda 21 sectors; 16. ACKNOWLEDGE in this respect the important role of the international and regional financial institutions in enabling the developing countries to carry out the decisions of UNCED, and CALL UPON the international financial institutions to give urgent priority to the follow-up to UNCED; 17. They further ACCENTUATE the special importance of the Global Environment Facility and STRONGLY SUPPORT the current process of replenishment and the restructuring of the Facility before 31 December 1993 into an effective and transparent body with a balanced and equitable representation of all countries, in order to make it available as the permanent financial mechanism for the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, an ...