Translation of "Forum ministériel sur l'environnement " (French → English) :

– having regard to the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis at the WHO European Ministerial Forum of 22 October 2007, entitled ‘All Against Tuberculosis’ (EUR/07/5061622/5, 74415),

endorse the adoption by the next UNGA of a more coherent structure for global environmental governance, as advocated by the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the UN Environment Programme, a governance system which is capable of facing the enormous challenges ahead;

endorse the adoption by the next UNGA of a more coherent structure for global environmental governance, as advocated by the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the UN Environment Programme, a governance system which is capable of facing the enormous challenges ahead;

The aim of the Convention adopted at the Ministerial Conference ‘Environment for Europe’, which took place at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998, is to facilitate access to information on the environment and improve public participation in decisions that could have consequences for the environment, to which we could add a ‘third pillar’: access to justice in environmental matters.

28. NOTES the commitment of the international community to fully implement the outcomes of decision I on international environmental governance adopted by the UNEP Governing Council at its seventh special session, REAFFIRMS that the EU is ready to take concrete steps in order to strengthen IEG, which could lead to the upgrading of UNEP into a UN specialised agency with a broadly based mandate on environmental matters, and enhance linkages between IEG and sustainable development governance; in this regard the EU looks forward to a fruitful next UNEP governing council and its member-states reaffirm that they are ready to base future volun ...[+++]tary funding of UNEP on the voluntary indicative scales assessment as agreed in Cartagena; and INVITES the General Assembly at its 57 session to consider the important but complex issue of establishing universal membership for the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum and WILL ACTIVELY PURSUE this issue in connection with the preparation of the Global Ministerial Environment Forum in 2003.

Recalling that the Environment Ministers Meeting in Malmö at the First Global Ministerial Environment Forum indicated in their final declaration that "the 2002 conference should aim at addressing the major challenges to sustainable development, and, in particular, the pervasive effects of the burden of poverty on a large proportion of the Earth's inhabitants, counterposed against excessive and wasteful consumption and inefficient resource use that perpetuate the vicious circle of environmental degradation and increasing poverty";