Annual Report 2000

UNEP/GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2000

Europe and Central Asia

Cities' SoE reports

In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Indepen- dent States (NIS), GRID-Arendal has continued to develop the capacities of national governments for producing and disseminat- ing environmental information. In the Baltic region and Western Europe GRID-Arendal cooperated with environmental and re- search organizations in environmental assessment methodology and improving access to vital environmental knowledge.

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As part of the CEROI programme, GRID-Arendal continued to facilitate electronic environmental reports by cities in CEE and the NIS. Two new cities reporting on-line in 2000 were Kiev and Tbilisi. A comprehensive bilingual environmental atlas of Tbilisi was also developed by GRID-Tbilisi with GRID- Arendal's technical support. www.ceroi.net

Environmental Performance Reviews (EPRs)

As a supplement to the Environmental Performance Reviews by the UN/Economic Commission of Europe (UN/ECE), GRID- Arendal facilitated the publication of CD-ROMs containing updated electronic state-of-the-environment reports by the en- vironmental ministries of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. www.grida.no/enrin/soe

Central Asia

All Central Asian states updated their national electronic state- of-the-environment reports. These and a regional report on the state of the environment in the Aral Sea Basin countries were discussed and analysed at a workshop held in Arendal. A CD- ROM containing these reports as well as other environmental information on Central Asia from other international projects and organizations was launched at the "Ministerial Consulta- tion between Economic/Finance and Environment Ministers on Water Management and Investments in the NIS" in Almaty. www.grida.no/aral

Balkans

GRID-Arendal supported several of the UNEP/Balkans unit ac- tivities in Macedonia and Albania by providing an expert for the post-conflict assessment, producing maps for the assessment reports and conducting training in indicator-based state-of-the- environment reporting. balkans.unep.ch

SoE Cookbook

A Russian-language edition of GRID-Arendal's "Cookbook for State-of-the-Environment Re- porting on the Internet" was published with funds from the Swedish Environment Protec- tion Agency (EPA) and the "Princes' Award for the Best Audiovisuals on Europe's En- vironment" won by GRID-Are- ndal in 1999. www.grida.no/soe/cookbook