Highlights and images for 6 March 2019

Summary

Highlights for Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Delegates from Working Group 3 during a break

On Wednesday, delegates continued meeting in five working groups to negotiate draft resolutions, ahead of the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) next week in Nairobi, Kenya. Informal consultations took place during the day on marine litter, gender, geoengineering, Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), improvement and the future of Global Environment Outlook reports, and implementation and follow-up of UNEA resolutions. In the evening, UNEA President Siim Kiisler (Estonia) held a second consultation session on the draft ministerial declaration. Many delegates worked in small drafting groups through the day to revise text for discussion in the larger working groups.Highlights of the day included:

review of merged texts on food waste and on mangrove ecosystems;

discussions over the different meanings of SCP, a life-cycle approach, and a zero-waste society;

opening of debate on sustainable nitrogen management; and

a second round of open consultations on the draft ministerial declaration.

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.

Photos by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis

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