GREEN WEEK Conference 2012

Green Week is a major EU conference on environment. This year’s edition, focused on water, will take place from 22 to 25 May 2012 in Brussels. Several United Nations representatives will participate in debates organised during the conference. In addition to that we would like to invite you to visit our information stand and learn more about the UN’s work in the field of water.

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Rio+20: The Future We Want

"Rio+20”is the short name for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012 – twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit. It is an opportunity to look ahead to the world we want --a future with more jobs, more clean energy, greater security and a decent standard of living for all.The UN team in Brussels has been engaging closely with the European institutions as they make their preparations for Rio+20.  

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General Assembly grants EU higher participation status

The General Assembly on 3 May 2011 voted to upgrade the status of the European Union’s (EU) participation at the United Nations 192-member body. The General Assembly resolution (A/RES/65/276) on the participation of the EU in the work of the UN was adopted by 180 UN Member States and will allow senior EU representatives to present to the Assembly the common positions of the European bloc. Syria and Zimbabwe abstained and 10 countries did not vote.

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Our Views: contribution to the European agenda

The United Nations Team in Brussels actively contributes to the European institutional decision-making processes by using the opportunities available to it to inject into them a UN perspective. To make its voice heard, the Team through a number of platforms and communication forms regularly expresses its views on key European issues making sure that internationally-agreed UN priorities are part of the European policy debates.

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MDGs - the Brussels perspective

World leaders agreed to recommit political will and financial resources to achieve key global development targets in health, hunger, poverty and education made a decade ago to be reached by 2015.  The UN team in Brussels has been focusing its partnership work with the European institutions to maintain Europe’s strong engagement in advancing on those targets known as the Millennium Development Goals.

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United Nations - European Union Partnership Report

This sixth annual Partnership Report Improving Lives: Partnership between the United Nations and the European Union in 2010 conveys results of a vibrant partnership that spans over 110 countries across the globe. Through photos and text, the report gives a glimpse of our work on the ground. 

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