The Committee for Development Policy is required by Economic and Social Council resolution 1991/46 to conduct triennially a review to determine the countries to be added or graduated from the list of least developed countries (LDCs). Since the previous review was conducted in 2000, the Committee...

With the onset of the new millennium, the longstanding need for reform of the United Nations system has gained new momentum. Efficiency gains and better coordination are desirable, though not sufficient to bring about improvement in international relations. It could therefore make sense to look...

The interest in global environmental problems has - in particular in the wake of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992 - increased substantially, in both the theoretical and the practical sense. This may be bound up with the growing pressure stemming from still unsolved...

Die Klimakonferenz von Kyoto war bereits die dritte Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen. Daß die Klimakonferenz in Kyoto ein Schritt auf allerhöchster Weltebene war, so schrieb Joachim Wille in der Frankfurter Rundschau, diese Erkenntnis in verbindliches...

Three topics dominate the formulation an international greenhouse-gas regime as part of an effective global environmental policy. Efficiency, equity, and uncertainty. And three major policy instruments are discussed as regards the implementation of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate...

Im Bericht der Weltkommission für Umwelt und Entwicklung von 1987, der zu einer weltweiten Diskussion über zukunftsfähige Entwicklung (sustainable development) geführt hat, finden sich zwei Definitionen dieses Konzepts: „Entwicklung zukunftsfähig zu machen heißt, das die gegenwärtige...

Wasser ist unabdinglich für das Wohlbefinden der Menschen und das Wohlsein der Natur. Die Verfügbarkeit über sauberes Trinkwasser entscheidet über Leben und Tod, die Verfügbarkeit über wirtschaftliches Nutzwasser bedingt Prosperität oder Verelendung. Und deshalb kann Wasser auch Anlass...

With the beginning of the new millennium, the longstanding need for reform of the United Nations system has gained new momentum. Efficiency gains and better coordination are desirable, though not sufficient to bring about improvement in international relations. There is need, therefore, to look...

When in 1998 ECOSOC decided to reconstitute the previous Committee for Development Planning under name Committee for Development policy, it mandated the new CDP, among other tasks, to „… continue the triennial review of the status of least developed countries“, with the next review to be...

In Europe, the recent debate on globalisation of the economy has - ironically - given a notable push for various concepts of regionalisation. Regions always played a strong role in people's perceptions of a good life, but regions were predominantly understood as political boundaries of states,...