Brussels, 24/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - Cooperation between the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is intensifying. On Wednesday 23 January, Janez Potoènik, the European Commissioner for the Environment, and Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, adopted a joint declaration which launches a strategic partnership for joint activities to be funded, up to 2013, under the “Thematic programme for environment and sustainable management of natural...