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This publication offers insight into the effects of long-range transboundary air pollution. Its discussion covers the following areas: ten years of monitoring forest condition in Europe; the role of...

This issue of the Bulletin of Information and Communications Technology for Development in Western Asia contains a review and analysis of the status of information society in the ESCWA region.


The UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, adopted in 1979, is the first international legally binding instrument to address problems of air pollution on a broad regional basis...

This latest biennial Review sets out transport developments in the ESCAP region, focusing on trade trends and forecasts, and their effect on transport, while also taking into account the external...

ThIs review discusses the key contribution of transport to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific. It looks at emerging trends in transport in the region and...

The Review, a biennial publication, is structured into three main parts. Part I describes the environment within which the transport sector is developing and the principal challenges that this...

The publication focuses on greening urban passenger transport systems in Asia and the Pacific region. It will review existing state of public transport systems and assess the environmental...

The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, adopted 25 years ago, is the oldest of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe environmental conventions. This Handbook presents a...

The publication of this book marks the 25th anniversary of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, one of the oldest and more successful multilateral international treaties...

In terms of migration, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has come at a time already characterized by involuntary migration and growing intraregional movements, resulting in a migrant...

The health and economic crisis like no other in the past 100 years that has been caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has thrown socioeconomic inequalities and unequal access to health and social...

This document examines the exacerbation of risks and the erosion of protection factors relating to physical, psychological and sexual violence in the home experienced by adolescents and children...

In the context of the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is preparing a series of short publications with key policy...

This document examines the situation of persons with disabilities, in terms of the impact that COVID-19 (coronavirus) could have, taking into consideration age and sex, health conditions, types of...

COVID-19 (coronavirus) is exposing social inequalities of all kinds in the world and the region, as well as the overrepresentation of Afrodescendants among the group living in poverty who are employed...