Highlights for Tuesday, 19 March 2019
View of the dais during the plenary session
On Tuesday, delegations completed their deliberations based on four guiding questions issued by the Co-Chairs, Amal Mudallali, Lebanon, and Francisco Duarte Lopes, Portugal. The questions invited delegations to address:
Options to address possible gaps or challenges related to principles of International Environmental Law (IEL);
Options to address possible gaps related to the governance structure of IEL;
Options to address gaps or challenges relating to implementation of IEL; and
Options to address specific regulatory regimes or environment-related instruments.
An intensive round of bilateral activity involving advocates of a global pact also engaged the attention of delegations on the margins of the meeting in Nairobi.While some delegations continued to probe proposals for a new instrument and other related options, other delegations began to outline possible outcomes from the OEWG process, including:
An instrument incorporating a human rights and gender approach, and reference to planetary boundaries;
A compilation instrument incorporating the main principles of IEL;
A legally binding instrument or treaty, with provisions to safeguard or enhance environmental protection, and a list of IEL principles;
A high-level non-binding declaration incorporating the issues raised at the OEWG; and
A single outcome or an approach combining legally-binding and non-binding elements.
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Co-Chair Amal Mudallali, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Lebanon
Vinicius Trindade, Brazil
Kangayatkarasu Nagulendran, Malaysia
Carmen Marques Ruiz, European Commission, with José Juste-Ruiz, Spain
Khawla Al-Muhannadi, Environment Friends Society, and Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt
From L-R: Lino Santacruz Moctezuma, Camila Zepeda Lizama, and Erasmo Martínez, Mexico
Shannon-Marie Soni, Canada, and Yacouba Savadogo, Burkina Faso
Abdelrahman Al-Gwaiz, Saudi Arabia
Helge Elisabeth Zeitler and Gudi Alkemade, European Union
Diégo Colas, with Remi Cluset, France
Marta Juarez Ruiz, Costa Rica
Elizabeth Taylor, Colombia
From L-R: Co-Chair Francisco António Duarte Lopes, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Portugal; Co-Chair Amal Mudallali, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Lebanon; and Jamil Ahmad, UNEP
Yann Aguila, International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL)
Fabienne McLellan, OceanCare
María Caridad Balaguer Labrada, Cuba
Stadler Trengove, UN Legal Officer
Peter Doran, IISD Reporting Services (IISD-RS), with Anthony O'Grady, Ireland
IISD-RS writers discussing with Yann Aguila and Marie-Cécile de Bellis, ICEL
André Costa Lapeira and Peter Pitrez, Portugal
Nino Gokhelashvili, Georgia
Between Sessions
