6 January 2009
ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP CONSIDERS CLIMATE NEUTRAL UN
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The 14th Senior Officials Meeting of the Environment Management Group convened on 10 December 2008, in Poznan, Poland.

Participants discussed: implementation of the 2007 commitment by the Chief Executives Board on moving towards a climate-neutral UN, including the development of a Climate Neutral Knowledge Management website that will document individual agency’s greenhouse gas emissions and […]

The 14th Senior Officials Meeting of the Environment Management Group convened on 10 December 2008, in Poznan, Poland.

Participants discussed: implementation of the 2007 commitment by the Chief Executives Board on moving towards a climate-neutral UN, including the development of a Climate Neutral Knowledge Management website that will document individual agency’s greenhouse gas emissions and reductions; the cost implications and budgetary modalities of purchasing carbon offsets; and future EMG work, including a possible strategic process and the strategy for implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the 2010 biodiversity targets. Regarding the issue of a climate-neutral UN, participants discussed the significant contributions of air travel to the UN’s climate footprint. They also considered the Issue Management Group on a Climate Neutral UN’s agreement for a common approach on whether to use the Radiative Forcing Index as a metric.
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