Environmental Auditors‘ Role
The work of environmental auditors provides an invaluable source of independent, legitimate, and credible information that assesses the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental policy at the national level. This information not only can feed into GEO reports at the global, regional, sub-regional, and national levels, but also can make an important contribution to UNEP‘s overall mandate of keeping the global environmental situation under review. We encourage the WGEA to continue its work of promoting environmental auditing in as broad and integrated a manner as possible, bearing in mind the constraints inherent with highly diverse systems at the national level.