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Nineteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19)

2-13 May 2011 | UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

UNESA DSD

Highlights for Tuesday, 10 May

Throughout Tuesday, CSD 19 Working Groups 1 and 2 convened to continue addressing issues in the Chair’s negotiating text. In the morning, Working Group 1 took up mining, and Working Group 2 continued negotiations on waste management. In the afternoon, Working Group 1 addressed interlinkages (IL) and cross-cutting issues (CCI), including means of implementation (MOI), while Working Group 2 continued working on the 10-year Framework Place on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP on SCP). In the late afternoon, a stocktaking plenary took place to assess progress. Negotiations continued into the evening with sessions addressing transport and IL and CCI, including MOI under Working Group 1, while the 10YFP and waste management were discussed by Working Group 2. Delegates also participated in various side events and a Learning Center.

A view of the dais during the evening stocktaking plenary
Working Group 2: 10 Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and Waste Management
Wu Ye-Min, Singapore, and Frederick W. Allen, US, both of whom are negotiators for the 10YFP
Working Group 2 Facilitator Andrew Goledzinowski (center) consulting with delegates from the US, the EU and the G-77/China
Silvia Merega, Argentina
Delegates consulting during the 10YFP discussions
The text is projected onto overhead screens during the sessions
Working Group 1: Transport, Chemicals, Mining, and Interlinkages and Cross-Cutting Issues, including Means of Implementation
Working Group 2 Facilitator Yvette Banzon Abalos, Philippines
Kartika Handaruningrum, Indonesia, speaking for the G-77/China on mining, consulting with Ayser Tayeb, Saudi Arabia
Chris Stamford, Australia, during the mining discussions
Tamás Hámor and Ann-Christin Cederlund of the EU
Juan Pablo Hoffmaister, Bolivia, during Working Group 1 negotiations
Patrick Chevalier, Canada, during the mining discussions
Marianne Krey Jacobsen, Norway
The US during the mining discussions
Kartika Handaruningrum, Indonesia, consulting with Chris Stamford, Australia
 
Representatives of Gabon
 
The EU during the discussions on interlinkages and cross-cutting issues, including means of implementation
Side Event: Implementation challenges and solutions for SCP programmes in developing countries:
The role of governments, business and development partners, and the case of SWITCH-Asia

A view of the dais during the side event, which was organized by the delegation of the European Union (l-r): Sarah Beatty, Green Depot, Liana Bratasida, Indonesian State Ministry of the Environment, Rajan Gandhi, Society in Action Group in India, Thomas Wiley, DG DEVCO-European Commission, and Charles Arden-Clarke, SCP Branch, UNEP

Jim Fava, Five Winds International
Sarah Beatty, Green Depot, Liana Bratasida, Indonesian State Ministry of the Environment
Side Event: Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement (MTF and SPP): Experiences made
with the Implementation of the SPP tool developed by the MTF
A view of the dais during this side event, which was organized by the Government of Switzerland
Side Event: Road to WSSD 2020 Chemicals Goal
This event was organized by the delegation of the European Union

Learning Center: Negotiating customs and environmental ministry cooperation on hazardous waste management through inter-ministerial agreements

Deborah Kopsick, US Environmental Protection Agency (left)
Miscellaneous Photos
Chinese delegatges Gao Ming and Zhang Yi speak with ENB writer Kunbao Xia (right)
ENB writers speaking with John Matuszak, US
Delegates from Brazil and Mexico consulting
ENB writer Liz Willetts speaks with Keri Holland, US
Tariq Banuri, Director, Division of Sustainable Development, and ENB writer Andrey Vavilov
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