Summary
The second UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEA-2) continued deliberations in the Committee of the Whole (COW) on Tuesday. Idunn Eidheim, COW Chair, acknowledged concerns expressed by delegates the previous day about the organization of work and presented the Bureau’s proposed revised structure of three drafting groups to finalize the draft resolutions for Ministers' consideration later in the week. Delegates agreed to the proposal and two drafting groups convened during the day, while the COW met in plenary. A third drafting group convened in the evening.
Discussions in all three drafting groups continued into the evening.
Many side events, panel discussions and exhibitions took place around the conference venue during the day, including at the Sustainable Innovation Expo (SIE).
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (COW)
UNEA-2 participants discussing the organization of work in the COW
L-R: Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP; COW Chair Idunn Eidheim, Norway; Tim Kasten, UNEP; Masa Nagai, UNEP;
and Hushan Al-Fityan, Rapporteur
John Moreti, Botswana
Dong Yao, China
Naohito Watanabe, Japan
Abdullah Khalid Tawlah, Saudi Arabia
Kauna Schröder, Namibia
Nebojša Kaluđerović, Montenegro
Mohammed Khashashneh, Jordan
Emmanuelle Maire, EU
John Matuszak, US
Hesiquio Benitez Diaz, Mexico, consulting with COW Chair Idunn Eidheim, Norway
Delegates from Iran consulting
COW Chair Idunn Eidheim, Norway
Tim Kasten, UNEP
Joseph DiGangi, IPEN
Rhoda Boateng, ITUC-Africa, on behalf of Workers and Trade Unions
Majid Shafie Pour, Iran
Wallace Chwala, Israel
Marcela Nicodemos, Brazil
Raza Bashir Tarar, Pakistan
Alice Akinyi Kaudia, Kenya
Arlette Sombo-Dibele, Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development,
Water, Forests, Game and Fisheries,
Central African Republic
Vita Onwuasoanya, UN Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS)
Delegates from Mexico
DRAFTING GROUPS
L-R: Jacqueline McGlade, UNEP and Drafting Group 1 Co-Chair Tita Korvenoja, Finland
Drafting Group 1 discussses a draft resolution on sustainable and optimal management of natural capital
Drafting Group 2 considers a draft resolution on sound management of chemicals and wastes
L-R: Cyrille-Lazare Siewe, UNEP; Drafting Group 2 Co-Chair John Moreti, Botswana; and Achim Halpaap, UNEP
SIDE EVENTS
Sustainable Innovation Expo (SIE): Panel discussion on "Less Waste, Better Environment and Healthy People"
L-R: David Newman, President, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA); Hussein Khansaheb, United Arab
Emirates; Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions;
and Surendra Shresta, UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)
L-R: Chencho Norbu, Bhutan; Naohito Watanabe, Japan; and UNEA-1 President Oyun Sanjaasuren
SNAPSHOTS @ UNEA-2
UNEA-2 exhibit on the environmental dimensions of the SDGs
UNEA-2 exhibit on the African social enterprise "Alive and Kicking"
Jill Hanna, EU and Kimo Goree, IISD
L-R: Christopher Cox and Anjan Datta, UNEP
L-R: Pavan Sukhdev, Founder-CEO, GIST Advisory and Yvo de Boer, Director-General, Global Green
Growth Institute (GGGI)