TAILIEUCHUNG - From Conflict to Peacebuilding The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment

It is widely accepted that a modal shift towards railways can contribute to meeting EU targets on climate protection and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A stronger role for rail will help to achieve real progress towards the 2020 target of a 20% cut in the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, concerted action must be taken by governments and policy-makers to help bring this about. The rail sector is doing its part, having already agreed on a voluntary target for 2020, to cut its 1990 levels of specifi c emissions by 30%. It is also funding research to work towards standardised. | UNEP From Conflict to Peacebuilding The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment a About UNEP s Disaster and Conflict Operations The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP conducts field-based environmental assessments and strengthens national environmental management capacity in countries affected by conflicts and disasters. Using state-of-the-art science and technology UNEP deploys teams of environmental experts to assess environmental damage and determine risks for human health livelihoods and security. Since 1999 UNEP has operated in more than twenty-five countries and published eighteen environmental assessment reports. Based on this expertise UNEP is providing technical assistance to the UN Peacebuilding Commission in assessing the role of natural resources and the environment in conflict and peacebuilding. The main objective of this cooperation is to prevent natural resources and environmental stress from undermining the peacebuilding process while at the same time using environment as a platform for dialogue cooperation and confidence-building. About UNEP s Expert Advisory Group on Environment Conflict and Peacebuilding To broaden UNEP s expertise and analytical capacity an Expert Advisory Group on Environment Conflict and Peacebuilding was established in February 2008. Coordinated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development IISD the advisory group provides independent expertise develops tools and policy inputs and identifies best practices in using natural resources and the environment in Ways that contribute to peacebuilding. The group is composed of senior experts from academic institutions non-governmental organizations and think tanks that have demonstrated leadership in environment and conflict issues see annex 5 . About this report This report which inaugurates a new policy series by UNEP on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts aims to summarize the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages .

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