The concept of innovative environmental solutions was carried forward to the global policy level at the third session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is now vital to move beyond the concept of innovative environmental solutions at the strategic level, to actualizing the concept through the implementation of practical innovative instruments and measures.

Recommendations of the Eighth Steering Committee Meeting of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Centre (Rempeitc) for the Wider Caribbean Region

Ministerial policy dialogues in the context of the theme of the seventeenth session, “Taking action for environmental sustainability and prosperity in Africa”: promoting biodiversity economy and natural capital accounting in Africa.

At its fourth session, in 1991, and taking into consideration the financial constraints that had hampered its activities, the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment decided to set up a general trust fund to ensure a sustainable financial basis for the Conference. The main objective of the fund was to provide financial support, wholly or partially, for the functioning of the organs of the Conference and the implementation of its activities. There is an urgent and increasing need for all member States to make their contributions, including clearing outstanding arrears, to the general trust fund in a timely manner and on a regular basis.