Valuing Environmental Benefits and Damages in the NIS: Opportunities to Integrate Environmental Concerns into Policy and Investment Decisions

This paper summarizes the findings of Phases I and II and reports on the progress of two pilot studies under way. It illustrates ways to improve the process of prioritizing public investments through consideration of the monetary value of the cos...

Environment in the Transition to a Market Economy

Severe environmental problems were a key issue in the protests that marked the end of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book shows that economic reforms provided a crucial stimulus for environmental improvement, leading to reductions...

Regulatory Reform in the NIS: The Case of Water

Regulatory Reform in the NIS: The Case of Water

Environmental co-operation with the Russian Federation

An agreement on co-operation between the Russian Government and the OECD was signed in June 1994, though co-operation began in 1991. In 1997, OECD and the Russian government agreed that eventual membership of OECD by Russia was a "shared goal".

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Environment in the transition to a market economy, 1999

The collapse of communism in Central Europe in the late 80's, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 90's, brought the region's serious environmental problems to the attention of the international community. Many of these problem...

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Background Paper in Financing Strategies in Urban Water Sector in the New Independent States

The overview of the recent country applications is presented in the EAP Task Force Background Paper on Financing Strategies in Urban Water Sector in the NIS both in English

Analysis of Environmental Finance Flows in EECCA

Analysis and reporting on environmental financing trends in the NIS and CEE has been an important underlying activity in the developments and conclusions from the Conferences under the Environment for Europe process.

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• Environmental Finance Trends in the NIS
• Environmental Finance Trends in the NIS

NIS Environmental Finance Network

The NIS Environmental Finance Network, previously known as NIS Environmental Funds Network, was launched in 1997 in Almaty, Kazakhstan under the auspices of the EAP Task Force.

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EAP Task Force Work Programme 2001-2003

The following on-line and free of charge documents on co-operation with Non-Members are available here in .pdf format. You will need Adobe's (free) Acrobat Reader installed to view these files.

"Environment for Europe" Conference of Environment Ministers, 23-25 June 1998, Aarhus, Denmark

The "Environment for Europe" Conferences are important international fora, allowing environment ministers from CEEC and NIS to meet their counterpart from OECD countries.