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The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to the former USA Vice-President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to the former USA Vice-President Albert (Al) Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for ”their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. 4th session of the AWG on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under Kyoto Protocol is taking place in Vienna on 27-31 AugustThe fourth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG 4) and the fourth workshop under the Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention (the Convention Dialogue) start their work in Vienna on 27 August 2007. Joint EU-Russia workshop “Adaptation to Climate Change” is going to be held in Nizhny Novgorod on 20 September 2007.Joint EU-Russia workshop “Adaptation to Climate Change” within the framework of the Climate Change Subgroup of the EU-Russia Dialogue on the Environment is going to be held in Nizhny Novgorod on 20 September 2007. Sergey Kuraev has passed awayWith deep sorrow we inform you that today, on the first of June 2007 in Bonn, Sergei Nikolaevich Kuraev's heart has stopped beating. Government Decree Containing Procedure for JI Projects Adoption and Review of Their Implementation In Russia Has Been AdoptedOn 28 May 2007 Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov signed the Government Decree containing the Statute on adoption and review of realisation of JI projects under Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol. The Russian Government is taking steps to restrict combustion of associated petroleum gas.Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia has decided to strengthen penalties for combustion of associated petroleum gas The Second Meeting of Subgroup on Climate Change within the EU-Russia Dialogue on the EnvironmentThe Second Meeting of Subgroup on Climate Change within the EU-Russia Dialogue on the Environment was held in Moscow at the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydomet) on 18 April 2007. EU-Russia Joint Seminar on Post-2012 Action to Abate Climate ChangeEU-Russia Joint Seminar on Post-2012 Action to Abate Climate Change, pursuant to Article 3.9 of the Kyoto Protocol, was held in Moscow at the German Embassy on 18 April 2007 on the threshold of the Second meeting of the Subgroup on Climate Change within EU-Russia Dialogue on the Environment. IPPC Fourth Assessment Report. Impacts, Adaptation and VulnerabilityThe second scientific report “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”, presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), provides a comprehensive analysis on how climate change is affecting different ecosystems, economic sectors and world regions, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce such influence. The List of the Kyoto Protocol Parties is ExpandingThe Parliament of Montenegro has ratified Kyoto Protocol Other news... |
Legal Status of the RRECThe RREC has been registered as a national autonomous noncommercial organisation governed by the Federal Law of the Russian Federation 'on-non-commercial organisations' dated 12 January, 1996. The Russian Regional Environment Centre (RREC) is legally based on a Charter and the Founders Agreement. The Agreement was signed and the Charter was approved by the founders: the European Commission and the Russian Academy of Civil Service. The RREC is based in Moscow, the Russian Federation and there are provisions to open representative offices in the Russian Federation. Based on its Charter, the RREC is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in the Russian federation. The Centre will aim to achieve its mission by encouraging co-operation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses, academia and other environmental stakeholders, by supporting the free exchange of information, and by promoting public participation in environmental decision making. The Board is governed by a Board of 11 Managers who are appointed on the basis of personal merit from five representative groups: the Government of the Russian Federation (three managers); the Business Community (one manager); non-governmental organisations (three managers); academic institutions (two managers); foreign legal entities and individuals who contribute to the assets of the Centre ( two) The Board of managers is advised by the Advisory Forum, consisting of not less than twenty and not more than thirty members. Daily operations are managed by the Executive Director. This governance structure defines a public organisation of international character, independent from the direct influence of governments on its operations and fulfilment of its mission. The legal status of the RREC lays the ground for a specific open, flexible and adaptable structure, able to develop diverse programmes within the frame of its mission. From a legal point of view, the RREC is fully eligible to serve governments, NGOs, businesses and all other environmental stakeholders. It can explore, in its own right, any concrete modalities of flexible or formalised co-operation with relevant international and national, governmental, non-governmental and private organisations. |
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