Small Island Developing States

Delegates at the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2) met in plenary all morning, where they discussed the role of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Environment Assembly of the UNEP (UNEA) in delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They also considered the draft Global Thematic Report on “Healthy Environment, Healthy People.” UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner highlighted UNEP's 2018-21 Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) as a “stepping stone” for facilitating Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) delivery, and stressed UNEA's key role in facilitating synergies across the UN system. A panel of ministers and senior officials from Ethiopia, Kenya, the Solomon Islands, and the Netherlands discussed the issues, followed by open debate among delegates. In the afternoon, negotiations on draft resolution text continued in Clusters 1 and 4, which addressed, inter alia: implementation of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action, or SAMOA Pathway; role, functions and follow-up to the Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific; and three resolutions on the impacts of armed conflict on the environment. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage and daily reports from OECPR-2. In addition, IISD Reporting Services, has published a summary and analysis from OECPR-2 in HTML and PDF formats. Available in ENB Mobile at: http://enb.iisd.mobi/unep-oecpr2016/. Photos by IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Morning Plenary Delegates during the morning plenary Julia Pataki, CPR Chair Cluster 2 and 4 Chair John Moreti, Botswana Cluster 3 Chair Corinna Enders, Germany Cluster 1 Chair Pedro Escosteguy Cardoso, Brazil Cluster 5 Chair Raza Bashir Tarar, Pakistan Delegates stand for a moment of silence to honor former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Kenya Herman Sips, Senior Policy Coordinator, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands Kare Chawicha Debessa, State Minister, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ethiopia Samuel Manetoali, Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Solomon Islands Kai Simon Yuen, Norway Rosemary Paterson, New Zealand Nebojša Kaluđerović, Montenegro Marcela Nicodemos, Brazil UNEP Side Event on Extractive Industries A graphic illustrating the UNEP side event on extractive industries and the environment Oli Brown, UNEP Ligia Noronha, UNEP Cluster 1 Delegates discuss matters related to Cluster 1 Lloyd Gabriel Pascal, Dominica Frances Brown, Samoa Jill Hanna, EU Cluster 4 Delegates discuss matters related to Cluster 4 Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine Vladimir Lenev, Russian Federation Around the Venue Delegates speak with the UNEP Secretariat Delegates from Egypt read the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Kimo Goree, Vice President, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), with Abdullah K. Tawlah and Jamal Ali Bamaileh, Saudi Arabia Delegates meet before the start of plenary Delegates meet in huddles outside of plenary Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland, speaks with Jan Dusik, UNEP Vladimir Lenev, Russian Federation, speaks with Jiří Hlaváček, former Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions Secretariat, speaks with Cyrille-Lazare Siewe, UNEP Delegates between sessions Posters display UNEP's 40 years of environmental leadership