Summary highlights 24 January 2019

Highlights for Thursday, 24 January 2019

The Intergovernmental Meeting on the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) resumed for its final day on Thursday, 24 January 2019, at the UN Environment (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Delegates received the revised Summary for Policymakers (SPM) in the afternoon and met into the evening to review it, providing editorial changes to clarify and correct language discussed earlier in the week. They agreed that the key messages of the SPM would be incorporated in a Co-Chairs’ summary to be forwarded to fourth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) in March 2019 alongside the GEO-6 and SPM. During the closing session, several delegations thanked the Bureau for their work to streamline the text. Delegates also adopted the report of the meeting, which was presented by meeting rapporteur Aziza Geleta Dessalegn, Ethiopia. In his closing remarks, Jian Liu, UNEP Chief Scientist, thanked delegates for all their work in approving the SPM. Co-Chair Paolo Soprano, Italy, closed the meeting at 10:14 pm.

ENB+ Summary: The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary of GEO-6 will be available on Sunday 27 January 2018.

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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Participants negotiating text.

Matthew Billot, UN Environment (UNEP), and Co-Chair Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Costa Rica

GEO-6 Assessment Co-Chair Joyeeta Gupta, India, with Matthew Billot, UNEP

Sebastian Gil, European Union

Maribe Mujinga Nsompo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Delegates from India and China conferring before the start of the meeting.

Thiyu Kohoga Essobiyou, Togo

Stuart Mangold, South Africa

From L-R: Pierre Boileau, Head of GEO-6 Unit; Idrees Malyar, Afghanistan; and Fintan Hurley, GEO-6 author

Lori Dando, US, and Sebastian Gil, EU

The Egyptian delegation

Delegates from Ethiopia conferring.

Delegates considering the new text.

Miriam Ott, Germany, and Lori Dando, US

Zhuo Zhuang, China, with Muhammad Asif Sahibzada, Pakistan

Ahmed Saber, Egypt, and Mohammed Mobarak Alshamlan, Saudi Arabia

Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland, and Estelle Halimi, France

Pierre Boileau, Head of GEO-6 Unit, UNEP, and Pascale Collas, Canada

Mohamad Afana, Jordan

Alejandro Garofali, Uruguay

Fernando Coimbra, Brazil

Pierre Lamah, Guinea

From L-R: Pierre Boileau, Head of GEO-6 Unit; Adele Roccato, UNEP; and Co-Chair Paolo Soprano, Italy

Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland

James Mathew, India

Idrees Malyar, Afghanistan

Vanessa Lim, Singapore

Jian Liu, Chief Scientist, UNEP

Mariela Chervin, Martin Gronda, and Luciano Donadio Linares, Argentina

Edoardo Zandri, UNEP, with Ulf Björnholm, UNEP

Pedro Garcia Brito, Dominican Republic

Guri Sandborg, Norway

Aboua Gustave, Côte d'Ivoire

Mohammad Ichsan, Indonesia

Around the venue