Highlights for Wednesday, 23 January 2019
From L-R: Fernando Coimbra, Brazil; Martin Gronda, Argentina; and Vinicius Trindade, Brazil
The Intergovernmental Meeting on the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) resumed on Wednesday, 23 January 2019, at the UN Environment (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
Delegates met in the morning, afternoon, and into the evening, to complete the paragraph-by-paragraph reading of four sections of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM). On the section on drivers of, and responses to, environmental degradation they discussed the following issues:
greenhouse gases
biodiversity
oceans and coasts
land and soil
freshwater, and
the changing environment
The section on effectiveness of environmental policies involved discussions on policy innovations, diffusion, and enforcement.On future pathways they conferred on:
the need for urgent, sustained and inclusive actions
pathways towards achieving sustainable development
innovations and transformation required to achieve environmental goals, and
benefits from following sustainable pathways
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary report from the Negotiation of the GEO-6 Summary for Policy Makers, which is available in HTML and PDF.
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Luciano Donadio Linares, Argentina
GEO-6 Assessment Co-Chair Paul Ekins, UK
Co-Chair Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Costa Rica, with GEO-6 Assessment Co-Chair Paul Ekins, UK
Sebastian Gil, European Union
Anne Martinussen, Norway
Stuart Mangold, South Africa
Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland
Delegates during the lunch break
Miriam Ott, Germany
Pascale Collas, Canada
Lori Dando, US
Vinicius Trindade, Brazil
GEO-6 authors
Anne Martinussen and Guri Sandborg, Norway
Matthew Billot and Jason Jabbour, UNEP
Gillian Bowser, Colorado State University, with Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland
Zhuo Zhuang, China
James Mathew, India
Felipe Cortes, Chile
GEO-6 Assessment Co-Chair Joyeeta Gupta, India
Nobukazu Naniwa, Japan
Cheikh Fofana, Senegal
Isaac Dladla, Eswatini
Co-Chair Aziza Geleta Dessalegn, Ethiopia
Harouna Ramata Abba Kiari, Niger
Muhammad Asif Sahibzada, Pakistan
Co-Chair Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Costa Rica
Afsane Moeeni, Iran
Nino Gokhelashvili, Georgia
Vincent Fleming, UK
Around the venue
