Organization Mission
El Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), establecido en 1972, es la voz del medio ambiente en el sistema de las Naciones Unidas. El PNUMA actúa como catalizador, defensor, educador y facilitador para promover el uso sensato y el desarrollo sostenible del medio ambiente global. La misión del PNUMA es proporcionar liderazgo y alentar la participación en el cuidado del medio ambiente inspirando, informando y facilitando a las naciones y los pueblos los medios para mejorar su calidad de vida sin comprometer la de las futuras generaciones. América Latina y el Caribe es una región rica en diversidad de ambientes, ecosistemas, especies y culturas e incluye 7 de los países megadiversos. La región se divide en cuatro subregiones: Mesoamérica, el Caribe, la Región Andina y el Cono Sur y cada uno posee un conjunto único de características, prioridades y retos ambientales. La oficina regional para América Latina y el Caribe (ORPALC) situada en Ciudad de Panamá trabaja muy de cerca con los 33 países de la región – entre ellos 16 pequeños Estados insulares en desarrollo- con una población de cerca de 588 millones de habitantes. La oficina trabaja al servicio de las necesidades de la región y sus actividades se integran dentro de los programas de trabajo aprobados por la Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente del PNUMA (UNEA).
Context
UNEP is updating the course: Introductory Course on SDG 16 and access rights, the Aarhus Convention, and the Escazú Agreement and requires translation of the content to all UN official languages.
Key Responsibilities
UNEP is updating the course: Introductory Course on SDG 16 and access rights, the Aarhus Convention, and the Escazú Agreement and requires translation of the content to all UN official languages.
Course overview: Climate change, biodiversity loss, and air and water pollution are among the global environmental problems that affect everyone’s health and wellbeing and threaten development. Good governance is essential to effectively respond to these challenges. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 promotes needful actions in this area and is instrumental for achieving all other SDGs.
This course explores the environmental dimension of SDG 16, honing in on the targets and indicators linked to access rights, These access rights – access to information, public participation, and access to justice, supported by safeguards for environmental defenders – are essential elements of environmental stewardship and decision-making, and provide invaluable tools to contribute to the achievement of SDG 16.
After introducing access rights, this course will look in greater depth at three Multilateral Environmental Agreements stemming from Rio Principle 10 – the Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, and the Escazú Agreement – that further develop these rights to empower societies to address existential challenges and protect our planet.
Finally, this course will survey a variety of other environment-related and human rights treaties and international instruments, exploring how they interconnect and contribute within their respective substantive focuses to the goal of good governance, leaving no one behind and, ultimately, sustainable development.
Learning Objectives
Understand the interplay of SDG 16, the access rights, and environmental governance;
Explain the role and function of the access rights in the context of the Aarhus Convention, Protocol on PRTR, and Escazú Agreement;
Give examples of how SDG 16 and the access rights manifest in other MEAs and international instruments.
Required Skills and Experience
• The online volunteer is expected to be fluent in either Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese or Russian (preferably native) and have an advanced level of English. • Candidates must have
prior experience in translating/proofreading institutional documents in the relevant language. • Must be familiar with legal vocabulary. • Candidates must have an advanced or expert level of English. They must be able to work under tight deadlines. • Must have an interest in work related to the United Nations and its agencies, funds, and programmes. • Experience in translating official documents and understanding the appropriate tone for such translations is
an advantage.
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