The
New York Office represents UNEP at UN Headquarters.
It serves as a vital link with Governments
(through their Permanent Missions to the UN
and their delegations to various intergovernmental
meetings in New York), with agencies, funds
and programmes of the UN system, and with
departments of the UN Secretariat, notably
the Offices of the Secretary-General and the
Deputy Secretary-General. The Office ensures,
through its participation in intergovernmental
meetings, that UNEP’s voice and guidance
on environmental policy issues are taken into
account in the deliberations and recommendations
of the General Assembly and the Economic and
Social Council and its subsidiary bodies,
as well as in other special UN summits and
conferences, including the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD). The Office
also provides guidance and support to UNEP’s
Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment
Forum (GMEF), through the preparation of key
policy documents and by providing substantive
support to intergovernmental processes, such
as that on international environmental governance.
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The Office, in keeping within
its role with the Division for Environmental
Policy Development and Law, provides guidance and
support to UNEP's Governing Council/Global
Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF). It
prepares key policy documents and provides
substantive support to intergovernmental processes.
The Office has, in partuclar, played a key role
in facilitating the negotiations on international
environmental governance and on formulating
the UNEP Governing Council's contribution to
the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD).
The Office ensures, through its participation
in the General Assembly and its subsidiary
bodies, that UNEP's voice and guidance on
environmental policy issues are taken into
account by the international community. In
recent years, the Office has contributed,
in particular, to a number of important discussions,
including on reform of UN activities in the
environment and human settlements field, on
international institutional arrangements related
to environment and sustianble development,
and on preparations for the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD).
The Office ensures, through
its participation in the UN Ecocomic and Social
Council, the Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) and the recently created UN Forum on Indigenous
Issues, that the implementation of
the environmental dimension is taken into account
in the consideration of economic, social and
sustainable development matters. In recent years,
as a contribution to the efforts to revitalize
ECOSOC, the Office has participated in, and
provided expertise towards, the Council's consideration
of such issues as the contribution of information
and communications technology in achieving sustainable
development.
