Aarhus Clearinghouse Progress Report

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Aarhus Clearinghouse Progress Report

Michael Stanley-Jones Environmental Information
Management Officer Aarhus Convention Secretariat
Sixth Meeting of the Working Group of the
Parties 5-7 April 2006
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• Clearinghouses Renewed Mandate
• DECISION II/3 On Electronic Information Tools
• and the Clearing-house Mechanism adopted in
  Almaty at Second Meeting of the Parties
• (May 2005)
• Welcoming the establishment of a clearing-
• house mechanism and the launch of the UNECE
  Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental
  Democracy

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• In Almaty, the Meeting of the Parties
• 2. Invites Parties, Signatories and other
  interested States to develop a national node of
  the clearing-house mechanism with legal and
  practical information on issues related to the
  Convention at national level, linked to the UNECE
  Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy,
  and invites other stakeholders to submit relevant
  information to the clearing house

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National nodes of the Clearinghouse
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• 19
• Aarhus CH national nodes
• have so far been designated

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The Resource Directory holds 830 separate
entries. Each entry is tagged with one or more
thematic attribute Access to Information
566 Public participation 385 Electronic
Tools 249 Access to Justice 199 PRTRs
186 Strategic Decision-making 128
Convention Compliance 127 GMOs 86
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Resources entries by activity Research
414 Legislation 337  Projects
296  Policy 227  Procedures 201 
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Source of entries by organizational type
NGOs 410 IGOs 258 Government
195 Academia 82
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Leaders among Parties and Signatories

1. United Kingdom
69 2. European Community 34 3. Armenia
22 4. Kazakhstan 21 5.
Georgia 20 6. Kyrgyzstan / 19
7. Azerbaijan 17 8. Germany 14
9. Ukraine 11 10. Ireland 10
11-14. Belarus , Denmark, Italy , CH 9
15-17. Bulgaria , R Moldova , Tajikistan
8 18-20. Czech Rep, Finland, Norway 7
21-24. Belg., Estonia , FYRM , Romania 6
25-27. France, Latvia, Spain 5
All others (19 States) 41
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entries each designated Aarhus website
/ not operational
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Visits
Total Visits 2006 (Q1) 121,988 2005 (Q4)
69,322 2005 (Q3) 77,941 2005 (Q2)
55,586 2005 (Q1) 32,884 2004 (Q4)
22,828 2004 (Q3) 6,916 21 month
total 387,465
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Traffic more than doubled in 2006
65.000
31,000
26,000
January February
March
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• Next Steps
• Ongoing outreach with resource providers
• Fresh News features
• Engage intern to build resource database
• Upgrade web calendar of principle 10
• related events
• National node capacity building workshops
• Draft guidance for national nodes
• Integration of capacity-building information

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http//aarhusclearinghouse.unece.org E-mail
aarhus.clearinghouse_at_unece.org