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Nineteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19)

2-13 May 2011 | UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

UNESA DSD

Highlights for Monday, 9 May

Throughout Monday, CSD 19 Working Groups 1 and 2 reconvened to continue addressing issues in the Chair’s negotiating text. In the morning, Working Group 1 took up mining, and Working Group 2 began the second reading of the text on waste management. In the afternoon, Working Group 1 addressed the text on interlinkages and cross-cutting issues, including means of implementation, while Working Group 2 continued work on the text on the 10 Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). A contact group also convened to discuss chemicals. Negotiations continued into the evening with sessions addressing transport and chemicals under Working Group 1, while the preamble was discussed by Working Group 2. Delegates also participated in a Learning Center, Partnerships Fair and various side events.

EU delegates during the negotiations on the 10YFP
Working Group 2: 10 YFP on SCP and Waste Management
Working Group 2 Co-Chair Abdelghani Merabet during the discussionson on waste
Jeanine Volken, Swtizerland, intervening during the discussions on waste
The US during the negotiations on waste management
Toshikatsu Aoyama, Japan during the negotiations on waste management
Galit Cohen, Israel during the negotiations on waste management
Henry Tachie Menson, Ghana, speaking for the G-77/China on waste management
An Australian delegate reading the daily ENB
Jimena Leiva Roesch, Guatemala, speaking for the G-77/China on the 10YFP
Working Group 1: Transport, Chemicals, Mining, and Interlinkages and Cross-Cutting Issues, including Means of Implementation
Kartika Handaruningrum, Indonesia, speaking for the G-77/China on mining
NGOs during the discussions on mining
The US delegation during the mining discussions
A view of the room during the negotiations
Portugal during the negotiations
Republic of Korea during the negotiations
Kathleen Abdullah, Secretariat, Working Group 2 Facilitator Yvette Banzon Abalos, Philippines, and Sangeeta Sharma, Secretariat
 
Representatives of the Russian Federation, Romania and the Philippines during the mining discussions
 
Baya Bensmail, Algeria (center), speaking for the G-77/China on interlinkages and cross-cutting issues, including means of implementation
 
Contact group on chemicals
Side Event: Integrating Sound Management: Engaging Civil Society in Sustainability

Donald Cooper (second from left), Executive Secretary of the Stockholm Convention and Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention during this event, which was organized by the UNCSD Education Caucus and the Global Youth Action Network- TIG

Mitchell Joachim, Planetary ONE + Terreform ONE
Side Event: Green Economy and Sustainable Production and Consumption- Experiences and Best Practice Examples
A view of the dais during this side event, which was organized by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia

Learning Center: Freight Sustainability: SmartWay Transport Partnership

Buddy Polovick, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides an overview of the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership
Learning Center: Synergizing resource efficiency with the informal sector towards sustainable waste
management
Anthony SF Chiu (right), De La Salle University, Philippines, and Chair of the Asia Pacific Roundtable for SCP
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