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Twenty Second Session
of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum
Highlights from Friday, 7 February |
Morning Plenary
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Committee
of the Whole
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COW Chair Tanya Van Gool (the Netherlands) at the close of the session |
Algeria
intervenes on the proposal on the International Year of the Deserts,
which it submitted along with others
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The International Maritime Organization makes an intervention during the discussions on marine safety and protection of the marine environment from accidental pollution, which was submitted by the EU |
Drafting
Group
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Chair
Juergen Weerth (Germany) with members of the US delegation discuss the
civil society draft decision
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Delegates
in the drafting group discuss the draft decision on civil society participation
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Contact
Group on Budget
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Informal consultations were held throughout the day on the budget. The contact group reconvened in the late afternoon to conclude its work Contact Group Chair John Ashe with members of the US delegation |
EU
ministers meet in the morning to discuss the budget
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Norway
with Canada (left) and the UK with Chair Ashe
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Chair Ashe chats with Finland after the consensus is reached on the budget |
Closing Plenary |
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Richard Ballhorn, Canada, chaired the contact group on consumption and production (left) and Budget Contact Group Chair (right) |
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Minister Michael Meacher, UK, with John Turner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, after agreement in the budget group was reached |
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In his closing remarks,
he indicated that it was satisfied with the outcomes of the meeting, although
results on some issues had not lived up to its expectations. Syria, for
the Arab Group, drew attention to the decision on the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. |
Topfer is pictured here with Deputy Executive Director Shafqat Kakakhel |
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Press Conference on the Occupied Palestinian Territories |
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The
desk study and the Governing Council decision on the Environment in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories is available at www.unep.org
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Tree Planting Ceremony for the late Kjell Larssen, former Swedish Environment Minister |
UNEP Executive Director Klaus Töpfer and Swedish Environment Minister Lena Sommestad
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A Pistache tree in planted in memory of Kjell Larssen, former Swedish Environment Minister |
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UNEP Launches
the Ogiek Study Report during the Fourth UNEP Global Civil Society Forum
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Kenya's Castaways- The Ogiek and National Development Processes; Published by Minority Rights Group International in Partnership with the Center for Minority Rights Development |
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Adnan Amin, UNEP New
York Executive Director, addressing the Minister
for Lands and |
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Miscellaneous
Photos
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Delegates
from Liberia, Cameroon and Cape Verde
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Venezuelan
Environment Minister Ana Elisa Osorio Granado (left), Ignatius Jean, Minister,
Ministry of Physical Development, Environment and Housing (right)
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ENB writers Andrey Vavilov and Hugh Wilkins (left) and Vavilov with Andrey Vasiliev, CSD Secretariat (right) |
On Wednesday, 5 February, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-Habitat (left) and Jeanne Rebstock Foust, Environmental Systems Research Institute, launched a US$15 million initiative to provide over 1000 cities in developing countries with geographic information systems (GIS) software and training to be provided by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) |
Jimena
Nieto, Colombia, and African delegates consult
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UN
Security and delegates from Saudi Arabia
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Klaus Töpfer with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Kenyan Environment Minister Newton Kulundu during a luncheon held Wednesday, 5 February, and Anyang Nyong'o, Kenyan Minister of Planning and National Development with Governing Council President Ruhakana Rugunda |
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