27-Jan-2012
On January 20, IPIECA members and Secretariat participated in the first session of the United Nations (UN) Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, held in Geneva. The UN Working Group invited all stakeholders to share their views in order to help establish its work programme, both in advance of this session and during the...
17-Jan-2012
The first draft of the Rio+20 outcome document has now been published. UN Member states will be meeting in New York from 25-27 January for the first reading of the document and to provide comments.
A number of priority areas for Rio+20 have been identified including food security, water, energy, oceans and seas, climate change, forests and biodiversity, and sustainable consumption and...
16-Jan-2012
This publication draws on the experience and expertise of the industry, through IPIECA and OGP, and the World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction Public-Private partnership (GGFR). It is the product of a cooperative effort between the IPIECA GHG Emissions Task Force and GGFR to create a guidance document to support flare reduction efforts by petroleum producers and governments...
13-Jan-2012
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has declared 2012 the year of ‘Sustainable Energy for All’.
Ban Ki-moon hopes that the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, being held in June 2012 will mobilize support for clean energy investment among governments, civil society, communities and the private sector. There are there objectives to the...
13-Jan-2012
IPIECA is a sponsor of the Green Economies Dialogue project, launched by the United States Council Foundation (USCF), the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC).
The initiative aims to foster broad international understanding and consensus on directions for green growth, and effective ways to achieve...
19-Dec-2011
In November, new IPIECA Executive Secretary Brian Sullivan and Technical Director, Rob Cox visited Mr Badar al Khashti, new Managing Director for Health, Safety and Environment, and Research and Development at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC). They discussed IPIECA’s work programme for 2012 and new opportunities for engagement for IPIECA and KPC.
19-Dec-2011
In December 2011 IPIECA attended the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Regional Preparatory Meeting for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. The meeting was for member States of the UN ECE and representatives of major groups, UN agencies and other international bodies to identify the specific challenges and priorities of the...
19-Dec-2011
After roughly 70 hours of round-the-clock negotiations (setting the record for the longest ever at a Conference of Parties (COP)), the 194 Parties of the UN climate negotiations reached an agreement. One day later Canada formally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol.
The set of agreements reached in Durban were hailed as a milestone by some, and yet weak by others. At the centre, Parties of the...
