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16th Governing Council Session

Report of the Governing Council on its work of its Sixteenth Session

INTRODUCTION

Organization of the Session

Election of officers
Credentials
Agenda
Organization of the work of the session
Work of the sessional committees
Opening Of The Session
Attendance

Adoption of Decisions

Preparation of an international legal instrument on biological diversity (decision 16/42)
Strengthening of three main secretariat units through the establishment of programme activity centers (decision 16/25)
Reports of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination (decision 16/19)
Progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 441227 (decision 16/20)
Assistance to Bangladesh on environmental matters in the wake of the devastating cyclone (decision 16/29)
Military conflicts and the environment (decisions 16/11 A and B)
Hazardous waste (decisions 16/30 A and B
List of selected environmentally harmful chemical substances, processes and phenomena of global significance (decision 16/31)
Industrial accidents (decision 16/32)
Transfer of environmentally sound industrial production technology (decision 16/33)
International Environmental Technology Centre (decision 16/34)
Toxic chemicals (decision 16/35)
Oceans and coastal areas (decisions 16/26 A to C)
Sea-level rise (decisions 16127 A and B)
Regional activities within the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme related to changes in the global life-supporting system (decision 16/36)
Early warning and forecasting of environmental emergencies (decision 16/37)
Improvement and harmonization of environmental measurements (decision 16/38)
Freshwater resources (decision 16/39)
Protection of the ozone layer (decision 16/40)
Climate change (decision 16/41)
Strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (decision 16/1)
International conventions and protocols in the field of the environment (decision 16/43)
Decisions 16/44 to 16/47
Integration of environment and development (decision 16/2)
Special session of the Governing Council in 1992 (decision 16/3)
Periodicity and duration of Governing Council sessions (decision 16/4)
Rationalization of Governing Council documentation (decision 16/5)
Review of the organization and management of the United Nations Environment Programme (decision 16/6)
Volunteers for the environment (decision 16/7)
World environment academy (decision 16/8)
Effects of chemical weapons on human health and the environment (decision 16/12)
The environmental situation in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories (decision 16/13)
Regional and subregional programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean(decision 16/14)
State-of-the-environment reports (draft decisions 16/15 A to C)
Emerging environmental issues (decision 16/16)
Hazardous environmental events (decision 16/17)
Enhancing United Nations co-ordination of environmental activities (decision 16/18)
United Nations center for urgent environmental assistance (decision 16/9)
Contribution of the United Nations Environment Programme to international co-operation to address and mitigate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (decision 16/10)
Co-operation between the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (decision 16/21)
Desertification (decisions 16/22 A to E)
Programme budget of the United Nations Environment Programme for the biennium 1992-1993 and the supplementary programme for the biennium 19901991 (decision 16/23)
Modification by the General Assembly of the medium-term plan of the United Nations Environment Programme (decision 16/24)

Executive Directors Reports

Special session of the Governing Council in 1992
Membership of the Governing Council
Annual sessions of the Governing Council
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
Strengthening of UNEP
Independent external evaluation

State of the Environment Reports

Co-ordination Questions

Programme Matters Including the Implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

The Environment Fund Administrative and Other Financial Matters

Provisional Agenda, Date and Place of the Seventeenth Session of the Council

Other Matters

Adoption of the Report

Closure of the Session

Annexes

Report of the Programme Committee
Report of the Fund Committee
List of Documents Before the Governing Council at its Sixteenth Session
Decisions Adapted by the Governing Council at its Sixteenth Session