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TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION AND CAPACITY BUILDINGA Guide to Resources▼This publication is the result of a partnership.Individual oil companies have provided the casehistories and much background material, IPIECA hascatalysed and facilitated the production of thepublication, and the United Nations EnvironmentProgramme has provided a broad internationalperspective on environmental issues and on theimportance of partnership in general.PeoplePublication Task Force members consisted of:Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel (UNEP IE)Nancy Bennet (UNEP IE)Richard Feil (BP)Randy Gossen (Canadian Occidental)John Lemlin (IPIECA)Jean Marvillet (Total)Sophie Mounier (Project Manager, IPIECA)Jane Nelson (Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum)Gerry Ungerleider (Task Force Chairman, Exxon)Koos Visser (Shell)Radzuan Yusof (Petronas)The publication has also been reviewed by theIPIECA membership and UNEP selected partners.A very special thanks should be given to all thoseinvolved in the preparation of the case studies.Thanks should also be given to Diane Edmensonand Charlotte Grezo of IPIECA for their input.OrganizationsIPIECAThe International Petroleum Industry Environmental ConservationAssociation has special responsibilities for global environmental issuesrelated to the petroleum industry. It was founded in 1974, followingthe establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) at the United Nations Conference on the HumanEnvironment, held in Stockholm two years earlier.UNEP is responsible for coordinating the United Nation’s systemas directed by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).IPIECA is the petroleum industry’s principal channel of communicationwith the United Nations, having been granted ECOSOC Category IINon-Governmental Organization (NGO) consultative status.IPlECA’s programme takes full account of internationaldevelopments within the environment field. This includes developmentswithin the United Nations, within the newly created Commission onSustainable Development and within the United Nations EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP), specifically within the UNEP Industry andEnvironment Programme Activity Centre in Paris. The growingimportance to industry of other UN agencies is also recognized.UNEPUNEP’s Industry and Environment Centre in Paris was established in1975 to bring industry, governments and non-governmentalorganizations together to work towards environmentally-sound forms ofindustrial development. This is done by encouraging the incorporationof environmental criteria in industrial development; formulating andfacilitating the implementation of principles and procedures to protectthe environment; promoting the use of low- and non-wastetechnologies; and stimulating the worldwide exchange of informationand experience on environmentally-sound forms of industrialdevelopment. The Centre has developed a programme on Awarenessand Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level (APELL) to preventand to respond to technological accidents, and a programme to promoteworldwide Cleaner Production.62