Highlights and images for 5 March 2019

Highlights for Tuesday, 5 March 2019

On Tuesday, the Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) continued its discussions in preparation for the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4), in plenary sessions that ran in parallel with working group negotiations throughout the day. Delegates discussed budget and programme performance of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), contributions to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), and the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), while working groups deliberated on the text of draft resolutions to be forwarded to UNEA-4.Highlights of the day included deliberations and debates in plenary and in working groups on:

For more details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from OECPR-4 and UNEA-4, which is available in HTML and PDF.

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Plenary Session

Michael Spilsbury, UNEP

Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UNEP, and Sonja Leighton-Kone, UNEP

Miriam Ott, Germany, and Marta Juárez Ruiz, Costa Rica

Agus Justianto, Indonesia

Erik Lundberg, Finland

Gary Lewis, UNEP

Sonja Leighton-Kone, UNEP

Martin Gronda, Argentina

Elizabeth Taylor, Colombia

Milorad Šćepanović, Montenegro

Nassira Rheyati, Morocco

Working Group 1 - Innovative Solutions for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Consumption and Production

Co-facilitators Erik Lundberg, Finland, and Koleka Anita Mqulwana, South Africa

Tobias Cabani, Germany, and Pavel Cristian Vlaicu, Romania

Suzan Moh'd Al Ajjawi, Bahrain

Patrick Luna, Brazil

Working Group 2 - Resource Efficiency, Chemicals and Waste

Co-facilitator Marcus Davies, Canada

Noluzuko Gwayi, South Africa

Working Group 3 - Ecosystems and Biodiversity Management and Protection

Sergio Salazar Alzate, Colombia

Jorge Rodríguez Romero, EU

Working Group 4 - Environmental Governance

Co-facilitator Sunil de Silva, Sri Lanka

Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia

Erasmo Martínez, Mexico

Lucy Richardson, New Zealand

Working Group 5 - UNEP Programme of Work and Related Issues

Toral Patel-Weynand, US

Sebastian Gil, EU

Facilitators and secretariat during Working Group 5 consultations

Consultation on the Ministerial Declaration

Gudi Alkemade, EU

Hussein Roshdy, Egypt

From L-R: UNEA-4 President Siim Valmar Kiisler, Estonia; Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UNEP; and Abdullah Tawlah, Saudi Arabia

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