Given Ecologic’s expertise in the area of international and European environmental policy, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) decided in July 2005 to grant Special Consultative Status to Ecologic. ECOSOC is the principal organ to coordinate the economic, social, and related work of the UN specialised agencies and functional and regional commissions.
Ecologic is now welcomed to attend all relevant international conferences convened by the United Nations and the meetings of the preparatory bodies to these conferences.
ECOSOC serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to Member States and the United Nations system. It is responsible for promoting higher standards of living, full employment, and economic and social progress; identifying solutions to international economic, social and health problems; facilitating international cultural and educational cooperation; and encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Participation in ECOSOC was the first avenue by which non-governmental organisations took a role in formal UN deliberations. 41 NGOs were granted consultative status by the Council in 1946; by 1992 more that 700 NGOs had attained consultative status and the number has been steadily increasing ever since to more than 2.750 organisations today.
Further Links:
- Ecologic News: Ecologic joins Global Compact
- Ecologic Project: Specific Needs of Developing Countries - Design Option for a UNEO
- Ecologic Project: Towards a Stronger System of International Environmental Governance
- Ecologic Project: NGOs in International Environmental Policy
- Ecologic Project: UNDP Strategy on Environmental Mainstreaming
- Ecologic Project: Side Event on Renewable Energies at the UN CSD-12
- Ecologic Dinner Dialogue: Relationship between the United Nations and Civil Society - Juan Mayr
- Ecologic Dinner Dialogue: UN-Reform and the Future of UNEP - Peter M. Haas
- Ecologic Publication: Reforming International Environmental Governance: An Institutionalist Critique of the Proposal for a World Environment Organisation