ENB @ 9 Special Session/Global Ministerial Forum Dubai, UAE

Ninth Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF)
7-9 February 2006 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates
International Conference on Chemicals Management
4-6 February 2006 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Highlights from Wednesday, 8 2006

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Ministerial Consultations on Energy and Environment

Mark Radka, UNEP (right), summarized the background paper focusing on, among others, the global energy situation, and links between energy and development.

Tibor Faragó, Hungary, drew attention to the link between transportation and energy, wondering how to avoid switching from mass transportation modes to individual ones.

Ministerial Consultations on Sustainable Tourism

In a keynote speech, Deidre Shurland, Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, stressed that sustainable tourism requires diversified products, effective planning and control, and the dissemination of best practices.

Ministerial Consultations on environmental governance and the outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including universal membership of the GC/GMEF

Adnan Amin, Executive Director, Secretary-General's Panel on UN System Wide Coherence, presented on the ongoing reform initiatives as follow-up of the 2005 World Summit, in particular the Secretary-General's Panel and the relevant process initiated by the President of the UN General Assembly.

French Environment Minister Nelly Olin argued for transforming UNEP into a United Nations Environment Organization.

Committee of the Whole

Shafqat Kakakhel, UNEP Deputy Executive Director.

COW Chair Beat Nobs introduced a draft decision on the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM).

Halifa Drammeh, UNEP (left) and Veerle Vandeweerd, Director, UNEP Regional Seas Programme (right), introduced its revised draft water strategy (UNEP/GCSS.IX/4), noting that it provides an overview and guidance for future work programmes.

Side Event: Arab-China Conference on Environment

Zhu Guangyao, Vice Minister, State Environmental Protection Administration, China, His Royal Highness Sheikh Abdulah Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Head of Public Commission for the Protection of Marine Resources, Environment and Wildlife, Bahrain, and Chair of the 17th Session of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE), and UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer

His Royal Highness Sheikh Abdulah Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, CAMRE Chair, and Zhu Guangyao, Vice Minister, State Environmental Protection Administration, China,

Fatma El-Mallah, Representative of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (LAS)

Side Event: Sustainable Tourism as a development tool, organized by Norway

A film on sustainable tourism was shown (left); Helen Bjørnøy, Minister of the Environment, Norway and Kivutha Kibwana, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Kenya (right)

Side Event: Sustainable Development: The potential of eco-innovation hosted by the European Union