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First UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) of the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

23-27 June 2014, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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Introduction - 23 June - 24 June - 25 June - 26 June - 27 June - Summary

Highlights for Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Participants of the UNEA Global Symposium on the Environmental Rule of Law

On Tuesday delegates convened for the Global Symposium on the Environmental Rule of Law. The COW met throughout the day continuing consideration of draft decisions. In the afternoon the Gender and Environment Forum convened in four parallel sessions. In the evening delegates participated at UNEA "Unplugged," a town hall debate moderated by renowned Kenyan journalist, Jeff Koinange, that aimed to capture the diversity of voices on the thematic issues being addressed at UNEA. A contact group on chemicals and waste met, as well as the drafting group and the Working Party on rules of procedure.

Cletus Springer, Director, Department of Sustainabile Development, Organization of American States, Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP, Kalpana Rawal, Deputy Chief Justice, Kenya, Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director General, IUCN, Bakary Kante, Chairman, ASCENT

Kalpana Rawal, Deputy Chief Justice, Kenya

Elizabeth Mrema, Director, Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, UNEP

Julia Marton-Lefevre, Director General, IUCN

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP

First panel discussions (L-R) Lalanath de Silva (speaking), Lourdes Lopez, Sándo Fülöp, Antonio Benjamin, Ousamne Batoko, Tony Oposa, Luc Lavrysan and Winston Anderson

Masud Ahmed, Comptroller and Auditor General, Bangladesh

Flavia Nabugere, Minister of State for Environment, Uganda

Wilson Sanchez, Ecuador

A participant shares lessons from the Ganges River

Second panel discussions chaired by Scott Fulton

John Scanlon, Secretary General, CITES

Harold Nsekela, President, East Africa Court of Justice

Closing ceremony with Winston Anderson, Antonio Benjamin, Achim Steiner, Philip Waki, and Scott Fulton

Bakary Kante, former Director of the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, UNEP, and now Chairman of African Sustainability Centre (ASCENT) recognized for his contribution to the environmental rule of law

Plenary Session

Ibrahim Thiaw, Fernando Lugris, Tim Kasten, Masa Nagai and Mahmoud Samy

Marta Roca, Local Authorities

Diego Pecheco, Bolivia

Luca Arnold, Switzerland

Lawrence Anukam, Nigeria

Tim Kasten and Jacob Duer, UNEP, conferring

Cuban delegates discussing proposed text

Evening Events

Lourdes Lopez, Global Chair of the Globe Forest Legislation Initiative, and Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP, sign MoU

Jeff Koinange, Kenyan journalist, hosts "UNEA Unplugged," a live televised townhall meeting with Antonio Benjamin, High Court of Brazil, Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN, Farooq Ullah, Stakeholder Forum, Ligia Noronha, DTIE UNEP, and Nhattan Nguyen, UNEP TUNZA for Youth

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Introduction - 23 June - 24 June - 25 June - 26 June - 27 June - Summary

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Symposium on Environmental Rule of Law

Symposium on Financing a Green Economy

Gender Forum

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First UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

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