Um das Engagement der Region für die nachhaltige Entwicklung zu konkretisieren, sind zurzeit Bemühungen auf regionaler, subregionaler und transregionaler Ebene im Gang, so unter anderem der Prozess "Umwelt für Europa", die für Mai 2003 in Kiew anberaumte fünfte Ministerkonferenz der Wirtschaftskommission für Europa, die Entwicklung einer Umweltstrategie für die zwölf Länder Osteuropas, des Kaukasus und Zentralasiens, die zentralasiatische Agenda 21, die Arbeit der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der nachhaltigen Entwicklung, die Strategie der Europäischen Union für nachhaltige Entwicklung sowie regionale und subregionale Übereinkommen und Initiativen, die für die nachhaltige Entwicklung relevant sind, so unter anderem das Übereinkommen über den Zugang zu Informationen, die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung an Entscheidungsverfahren und den Zugang zu Gerichten in Umweltangelegenheiten (Übereinkommen von Aarhus), die Alpenkonvention, die Nordamerikanische Kommission für Umweltzusammenarbeit, der International Boundary Waters Treaty Act (Gesetz zu dem Internationalen Grenzgewässervertrag), die Iqaluit-Erklärung des Arktis-Rates, die Agenda 21 für den Ostseeraum und die Agenda 21 für den Mittelmeerraum.
At its 10th meeting, on 30 August, statements were made by the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the President of the Dutch Farmers' Association, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Executive Secretary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the representative of the Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21 Turkey, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, the representative of Environmental Alert, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the Acting Director of the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the representative of the Foundation to Promote Indigenous Knowledge, the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, the Regional Director of the Eastern and Southern African Office of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Director-General of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the Executive Director of the European Trade Unions Confederation, the Secretary-General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Director-General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the Acting Secretary of State of the Estado Libre de Puerto Rico, the Chairperson of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, the representative of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the representative of the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific, the Minister of State for External Affairs of the United States Virgin Islands, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, the representative of the Mines Ministries of the Americas Conference and the Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.