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The article discusses the Paris Agreement, an international agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and mentions India's commitment towards achieving the goals set by the agreement. Topics discussed include a brief description of the Paris Agreement, the India's intended nationally determined contributions to reduce emissions, and recommendations for effective implementations of environmental policies for climate change mitigation among developing countries.

The article presents guidelines in determining the winners for environmental awards. The guidelines include: the scope and processes overview, the entities involved and their roles; claimant governments and independent reviewers with their activities and reports, the technical review and financial review for remediation or restoration projects, the technical and financial review and reporting for continuing monitoring and assessment projects and the other matters such as the cost and the selection of independent reviewers.

This article highlights the award ceremony for the Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Diplomacy on March 8, 2005 in New York. Professor Lee Paddock, Director of Environmental Law programs at Pace University School of Law in Pleasantville, New York, introduced Professor Nicholas Robinson, a member of the Elizabeth Haub Award jury. The history of the Award is being recalled, which honors Elizabeth Haub, the distinguished German environmentalist. And Robinson paid tribute to the strong nature conservation values of Haub.

Within the global urban system, the statistical relationship between urban eco-environment (UE) and urban competitiveness (UC) (RUEC) is researched. Data showed that there is a statistically inverted-U relationship between UE and UC. Eco-environmental factor is put into the classification of industries, and gets six industrial types by two indexes viz. industries' eco-environmental demand and pressure. The statistical results showed that there is a strong relationship, for new industrial classification, between the changes of industrial structure and evolvement of UE. The drive mechanism of the evolvement of urban eco-environment, with human demand and global work division was analyzed. The conclusion is that the development stratege, industrial policies of cities, and environmental policies fo cities must be fit with their ranks among the global urban system. At the era of globalization, so far as the environmental policies, their rationality could not be assessed with the level of strictness, but it can enhance cities' competitiveness when they are fit with cities' capabilities to attract and control some sections of the industry's value-chain. None but these kinds of environmental policies can probably enhance the UC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses environmental law and policy in China. Principles of Chinese environmental law such as sustainable development, prevention first and rational development; Introduction of the country's environmental protection policies and the legal provisions implementing them; Development of the modern environmental law over three periods of history and legislation.

Provides various information related to global environmental policy and law. Launch of the Arab Water Council dedicated to water issues in the Arab World; Review of the Cotonou Agreement in the 79th Session of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Council of Ministers; Adoption of the Shanghai Declaration at the 60th Session of the UN Economic and Special Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

This paper assess the eco-environmental benefits that may come from the middle route project of China' s South-North Water Transfer Scheme(SNWT) with principles and methods of eco-economics and planning reports of SNWT' s middle route project. Some benefits were calculated in monetary units. To make sure that the results can be comparable with normal monetary indices, concrete assessment objects and the parameters are prudently selected according to the major characteristics of the project and its water import region. Primary assessment revealed that in different project construction stages, the benefit could be more than 13.07 billion RMB Yuan in 2010 and 19.79 billion RMB Yuan in 2030, respectively. The monetary value tends to increase with social-economic development. To realize these potential benefits, however, calls for more endeavors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers European news briefs. The delay in the drafting of National Allocation Plans (NAP) by European Union (EU) governments for the second phase of EU Emissions trading had left the EU parliamentarians dismayed. A new Environmental Strategy for the Mediterranean has been issued by the EU Commission as part of Barcelona Process. Recent data showed that in 2004 the average carbon-di-oxide emissions of the new cars that marketed in the EU-15 were the lowest ever.

The article focuses on the aspects of the revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources also known as the Maputo Convention adopted in 2003. Topics discussed include the various objectives of the convention which aim for the conservation and enhancement of environmental protection, the environmental focus of the convention which include land, water, and vegetation, and the role of the convention in addressing sustainable development issues.

This article focuses on the prioritization of environmental law by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since its inception, and is generally recognized as one of the most effective tools for catalyzing national and international action in the field of the environment. To fulfil the demands of Governing Council decision 22/17 II A of 2003, UNEP established a program of work to carry out, on a cohesive, structured and sustained basis, national activities under the direction and guidance of the respective Chief Justices.

EP- Hunting of Migrating Birds 93EU- 'Green' Accounting Guidelines 93Council of Europe- Report on European Environmental Policy 94 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on topics related to environmental policy and law. Success of the recent session of the Governing Council of the United Nations (U.N.) Environment Programme; Implications of the nomination of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton as U.S. President George W. Bush's choice to be U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.; Findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.