Achievements

In the course of its years of operation, the EMG has attended to numerous now concluded issues in enhancing cooperation on environmental issues across the United Nations System and responding to Member States in addressing environmental challenges. It has also worked on enhancing sustainability of UN activities, operation and management. Examples of its achievement are: preparing One UN contributions on Green Economy, Drylands, Biodiversity, Sustainability Management of the UN system, Environmental aspects of Fresh Water, Sanitation and Human Settlements, Atmosphere/Air Pollution & Industrial Development and Environment Related Capacity Building. The EMG has furthermore been entrusted with attending to the inter-agency aspects of international environmental governance processes.

A list of Indicators of EMG Accomplishments in 2010-2011 is here