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25th Session of the UNEP Governing Council/
Global Ministerial Environment Forum
(GC-25/GMEF)

16-20 February 2009 | Nairobi, Kenya

Highlights for Tuesday, 17 February 2009

On Tuesday morning, GC-25/GMEF delegates convened in ministerial consultations and the Committee of the Whole (COW). In the afternoon, deliberations continued in the COW and in three parallel ministerial roundtable discussions on the theme: "Global crises: national chaos? Towards a green economy." Two contact groups, on the budget and programme of work for 2010-2011 and chemicals management, also met throughout the day. The drafting group on state of the environment and environmental law convened in the afternoon.

Above photo: Painting by Jerrika C. Shi, depicting the consequences of climate change.

MINISTERIAL CONSULTATIONS:

Nick Gowing moderated the panel discussion on 'Global crises: national chaos?' Towards a green economy.


Pavan Sukdev, Green Economy Initiative		Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh		Jacqueline Cramer, Minister for Environment and Space, the Netherlands		Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair of International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management


Sigmar Gabriel, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany		Stanislav Ananiev, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Russian Federation		Byung-Wook Lee, Vice Minister for Environment, the Republic of Korea		David Foster, Blue-Green Alliance, USA

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:


Afternoon session of the Committee of the Whole (COW).

Jukka Uosukainen, Finland presided over the COW with Angela Cropper, UNEP Deputy Executive Director.


COW Chair John Matuzsak, US		Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziaber, Ethiopia

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