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Earth Negotiations
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25th
Session of the UNEP Governing Council/
Global Ministerial Environment Forum
(GC-25/GMEF) 16-20
February 2009 | Nairobi, Kenya
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Highlights
for Thursday, 19 February 2009
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On
Thursday morning, GC-25/GMEF delegates convened in ministerial consultations, the Committee of the Whole (COW) and in an informal group on support to Africa. In the afternoon, deliberations continued in the COW, and in three parallel roundtable discussions on “IEG-Help or hindrance?
- IEG from a country perspective.” The drafting group and
the chemicals management contact group also met throughout the day.
Above photo: Banner blocks showing UNEP's six
priority programme areas.
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MINISTERIAL CONSULTATIONS:
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| Bird's eye view of the Ministerial
Consultations in session. |
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| Kamalesh
Sharma, Secretary General, Commonwealth
Secretariat, moderated the ministerial consultations
on the theme "IEG- Help or hindrance? - IEG
from a country perspective." |
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| John
Michuki, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources,
Kenya |
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Marthinus
Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism, South Africa, with John Scanlon, UNEP |
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Roberto
Dobles Mora, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa
Rica |
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:
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| Dais
during the evening session of the COW, with Ibrahim
Thiaw, UNEP; Bakary Kante, UNEP; Angela Cropper,
UNEP Deputy Executive Director; Jukka
Uosukainen, Finland, Gaetano Leone, Secretary of
the COW and Juan Carlos Cue Vega, Rapporteur. |
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Angela
Cropper, UNEP Deputy Executive Director in discussion with
Jukka
Uosukainen, Finland, Gaetano Leone, Secretary of
the COW and Juan Carlos Cue Vega, Rapporteur. |
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| Delegates
review text from a draft decision. |
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CONTACT GROUPS AND INFORMAL GROUPS:
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CHEMICALS:
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| Contact Group on
Chemicals Management in session. |
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| L-R:
Hodayah Finman and John Thompson, US |
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Ottavio
Trindade, Brazil |
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| UNEP Chemicals
staff and Co-Chairs John Roberts, UK and Festus
Bayoora, Uganda celebrate approval of the draft
decision on mercury. |
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| John
Roberts, UK, with Gillian
Guthrie, Jamaica. |
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L-R:
Richard Gutierrez, Ban Toxics, Keiko Segawa,
Eriko Suda, and Kaoru Oka, Japan |
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John
Thompson, US, and Xia Ying Xian, China
shook hands upon the approval of the decision on
mercury. |
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| "Yes We
Have!" chanted UNEP staff and delegates after the
decision on mercury was approved; Dan Fantozzi,
US with UNEP's Per Bakken, David Piper, Sheila
Logan and Surya Prakash Chandak. |
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SIDE EVENT: Access to
Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in
environmental matters - UNEP Guidlines for enhancing Implementation of
Rio Principle 10
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AROUND THE BREEZEWAYS:
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| Tariq Banuri,
UN CSD, Kilaparti Ramakrishna, UNEP, and Jamil
Ahmad, Secretary of the Governing Council |
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Xenya
Cherny Scanlon, UNEP |
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Neeyati
Patel, UNEP with Mary Fosi Mbantenkhu, Cameroon |
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GC-25
Related Links
UNEP
website for the 25th Session of the Governing Council/ Global
Ministerial Environment Forum
Official
GC-25 Documents: Working documents
Official
GC-25 Documents: Information documents
Notification
by the Executive Director
Overview
of GC/GMEF
Information
for Participants
Pre-Session Events
Official
website: 10th
Global Civil Society Forum (GCSF-10)
Network
of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment (NWMLE)
Exhibition:
Green Technology Tent
Links to IISD RS Resources
IISD
RS coverage of the 10th Session of the Global Civil Society Forum
(GCSF-10) 14-15 February 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD
RS coverage of the 10th
Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial
Environment Forum (GCSS-10/GMEF), 20-22 February 2007, Principality of
Monaco
IISD
RS coverage of the 9th
Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial
Environment Forum (GCSS-10/GMEF), 4-9 February 2006, Dubai, United
Arab Emirates
IISD
RS coverage of the GC-24,
4-9 February 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD
RS coverage of the GC-23,
21-25 February 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD
RS coverage of meetings on Biodiversity and Wildlife
IISD
RS coverage of meetings on Chemicals Management
IISD
RS coverage of meetings on Climate and Atmosphere
Linkages
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development events in Africa
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