State of the Environment Reporting Network for Southern Africa SOENETSA

SOENETSA NEWSLETTER

Vol. 1 No. 1, December 1999

Editorial-State of the environment reports crucial for sustainable development  Welcome to the first issue of the SOEletter, a yearly electronic newsletter aimed at highlighting issues related to State of the Environment (SOE) reporting in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Full story

Country Assessments-Field study assesses SOE reporting in SADC A field study carried out recently as part of the Networking and Capacity Building Initiative for Southern Africa (NETCAB) has revealed national needs in State of the Environment (SOE) reporting in six Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. Full story

A second state of the environment report for Southern Africa underway: workshop establishes data framework Five years have passed since the first comprehensive report on The State of the Environment in Southern Africa was published in 1994. A second report is now due, aiming at assessing environmental gains and losses made by Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries since then. Full story

 

South Africa’s second SOE-report launched South Africa’s National State of Environment Report, was launched recently in Pretoria, by the South African Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Mohammed Valli Moosa. Full story

The state of the environment in Africa has declined: Global Environment Outlook 2000 reports The state of the terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments in the SADC region and the rest of Africa has declined over the past 100 years, according to the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-2000) report. Full story

Environmental crisis facing humanity in the new millennium The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) assessment of the environmental crisis facing humanity in the new millennium lists a number of startling facts. Full story

SARDC-IMERCSA would like to thank the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for funding NETCAB.

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