Annual Report 2000

UNEP/GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2000

Support to Publications

GPA Reports

During 2000, GRID-Arendal supported UNEP and other cooper- ating partners by producing maps and graphics, assisting in design and layout, and facilitating publication production.

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GRID-Arendal worked closely with UNEP/GPA's (Global Pro- gramme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environ- ment from Land-based Activities) Coordination Office in The Hague in the production, design and publication of six Regio- nal Overviews, two Regional Programmes of Action, and two global reports of the Joint Group of Experts in the Scientific As- pects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP).

Baltic 21

To measure the goals set for Baltic Agenda 21 for sustainable development, two indicator-based assessment reports, "Biennial Report - 2000" and "Development in the Baltic Sea Region To- wards the Baltic 21 Goals", were published with close co-opera- tion between GRID-Arendal and the Baltic 21 Secretariat. www.ee/baltic21

Life expectancy at birth in 1997 (male and female)

Life expectancy at birth in 1997 (comparison between male and female)

Years old

84

82

81

81

81

80

Iceland

80

78

77

77

76

77

77

76

76

75

Sweden Finland

In addition to the above reports, the secretariat of the GPA commissioned GRID-Arendal to prepare an overview of report- ing formats and procedures used by various international and regional organisations. This together with draft recommenda- tions for national reporting on GPA was delivered to the expert group meeting that prepared the first intergovernmental review of GPA Implementation. www.gpa.unep.org

Norway

Sweden

Iceland

74

Norway

Estonia

72

73

73

Russian Federation

72

Latvia

Germany

Denmark

Lithuania

Denmark

Finland

69

68

Poland

Germany

Poland

66

64

64

64

Female

Lithuania

61 to 71 years old

Male

Latvia

Estonia

61

60

72 to 76 years old

Difference between female and male life expectency

77 to 82 years old

NW Russia

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Post Conflict Environmental Assessment in Albania and Macedonia

During 2000, UNEP continued its investigation (initiated in 1999 in Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia) of the environmental consequences of the Kosovo conflict by making post-conflict environmental assessments in Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. GRID-Arendal supported the activities by producing a total of 30 maps and graphics, which made these new UNEP Balkans reports highly visual and user-friendly. balkans.unep.ch

RAIPON

RAIPON, the organisation of Russian Arctic Indigenous Peo- ples, recieved support to develop and produce their internal newsletters. www.raipon.org

Environmental Signals 2001

GRID-Arendal provided support to the EEA and EEA's Euro- pean Topic Centres on the production of a European indicator- based state of the environment report to be released in 2001. www.eea.eu.int