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Highlights and images for 27 May 2016
Resumed UNFSA Review Conference
Participants at the Resumed Review Conference spent the morning and afternoon discussing the draft outcome of the resumed Review Conference on the Agreement, both in plenary and in the drafting committee.
Delegates adopted the outcome by consensus and agreed to continue the informal consultations and keep the Agreement under review through the resumption of the Review Conference at a date not earlier than 2020. President Hazin closed the meeting at 5:59 pm.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports from the Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. In addition, IISD Reporting Services has also published a summary & analysis from this meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary and analysis of the UNFSA Resumed Review Conference will be available on Monday, 30 May 2016.
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Plenary
Fábio Hazin, President of the Conference, and Dmitry Goncher, UNDOALOS Secretariat
Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, UNDOALOS
Michael Brakke, US
Salote Tagivakatini, Fiji, and John Brincat, EU
Nigerian delegates
Stephen Willoughby, Barbados
Carrie McDougall, Australia
Li Yongsheng and Shi Xiaolin, China
Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, UNDOALOS Director, and Fábio Hazin, President of the Conference
Kengo Tanaka and Chiaki Mizugaki, Japan
Alex Jebson and Kate Neilson, New Zealand
Draft Text
Oleg Rykov, Russian Federation
Marshall Islands delegation
Eva Vázquez, EU
Luke Daunivalu, Fiji
Meli Raicebe, Fiji, and Elise Stull, FSM
View of the Plenary
Cristian Laborda Mora, Chile, Thembile Joyini, South Africa, and James Ndirangu Waweru, Kenya
Li Yongsheng and Shi Xiaolin, China, and John Brincat, EU
Arnór Snæbjörnsson and Matthías Pálsson, Iceland
Mar Rodriguez, EU and Javier Garat, International Coalition of Fisheries Asociations (ICFA)
Noemi Job, Mauritius
Mi Young Song and Jun-Re Kim, Republic of Korea
Fiji Delegation
Around the Venue
Highlights and images for 27 May 2016
UNEA-2
The second UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEA-2) continued into the early hours of Saturday, 28 May 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya, after a full day of negotiations and other events on Friday.
A ministerial policy review session took place in the morning, in which ministers were presented with the findings of the “Healthy Environment, Healthy People” report, a joint effort of several organizations, including the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat. Ministers and other high-level delegates proceeded to discuss the topic in two parallel roundtables before lunchtime.
Drafting groups worked through the day to finalize the text of all resolutions.
In the COW closing plenary, delegates accepted the package of resolutions, including resolutions on the UNEP Medium-Term Strategy, Programme of Work and budget. They agreed to change the UNEA cycle so that future meetings will take place in odd, not even, years, with the next meeting to take place in late 2017. Delegates forwarded the package to the UNEA-2 plenary for adoption.
In a late-night session, UNEA-2 accepted a package of 24 resolutions and 2 decisions. Delegates debated whether to put a G-77/China-sponsored resolution on “Field-based environment assessment of the Gaza strip” (UNEP/EA.2/CRP.6) to a vote.
11:20 pm Israel calls for a vote.
11:30 pm Syria calls for a motion of “no action.”
11:57 pm Plenary suspended to allow parties to consult.
12:31 am Plenary resumes.
12: 35 am
G-77/China announces the draft resolution will not be withdrawn.
12:53 am
UNEA-2 Chair invites delegates to vote on whether they wish to proceed to a substantive vote on the Gaza resolution. Brazil and Syria raise points of order.
12:57 am Delegates vote by holding up pink cards. Many abstain.
1:00 am Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, announces results of the procedural vote: 36 in favour, 4 against, and 35 abstentions. He explains that UNEA requires a quorum of 97 for the result to be valid, and the quorum has not been reached in this case.
1:20 am Egypt questions interpretation of quorum rule. Secretariat apologizes for misinterpretation and says there are sufficient numbers to proceed. US disagrees, moves to suspend the session in the absence of a quorum.
1:45 am Plenary comes to a halt as delegates discuss the status of the meeting on the sidelines.
1:59 am UNEA-2 President calls for a Bureau meeting, asks delegates to remain in the room meanwhile.
2:27 am #UNEA2 Bureau returns to the room. Secretariat to conduct a roll call to check if there is a quorum present.
2:55 am Roll call shows 78 members present. One-third needed to have a legal session. But majority must be here to proceed to a vote. #UNEA2
2:59 am #UNEA2 President calls to adjourn the session, suggest to reconvene 11 am Saturday 28 May.
3:11 am Delegates consider proposal to reconvene. Egypt and Pakistan, question legal status of meeting. Colombia, EU, Ukraine and others express appreciation to all for the hard work done this week, and the agreement on 25 resolutions at UNEA-2.
3:49 am UNEA-2 President notes overwhelming support to close the session rather than reconvening. Many delegates welcome the 24 resolutions previously adopted. Rapporteur presents report of the meeting.
3:56 am #UNEA2 adopts meeting report, President gavels the meeting to a close.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has published a briefing note for the GMGSF 2016 and provided daily web coverage, daily reports from the UNEA-2. In addition, IISD Reporting Services has published a summary and analysis report from this meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
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MINISTERIAL POLICY REVIEW SESSION “HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, HEALTHY PEOPLE”
L-R: Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Mary
Robinson, Former President of Ireland and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director;
Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, President of UNEA-2 and Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary of the Governing Bodies,
UNEP
Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological
Organization
(WMO)
Mary
Robinson, Former President of Ireland and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation
Video message by Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
L-R: Barbara Pompili, Minister of State for Biodiversity, France, and Jean-Patrick Le Duc, France
MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE 1
View of the room of the Ministerial Roundtable 1
Co-Chairs of Roundtable 1, Daniel Ortega Pacheco, Minister of Environment, Ecuador, and
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran and Head of the Environmental
Protection Organization
Leonardo Trasande, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, US
Omar Abdi, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Secretary, UNICEF
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Christine Dawson and Daniel Reifsnyder, US
Mustafa Satilmiş, Turkey
Cristina Tirado - von der Pahlen, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Aminiasi Qareqare, Fiji
L-R: Cristina Romanelli and Amy Fraenkel, CBD
MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE 2
L-R: Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building
and Nuclear Safety, Germany; Edna Molewa, Minister of Environmental Affairs, South Africa; and Jamil Ahmad,
Deputy Director, UNEP Office in New York
Jane Nishida, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency, US, and
Chair of the Advisory Group of the Global
Alliance
to Eliminate Lead Paint
Yannick Glemarec, UN Women
Tina Birmpili, Executive Secretary, Ozone Secretariat
Delegates from Senegal
Chencho Norbu, Bhutan
Johanita Ndahimananjara, Minister of Environment, Ecology and Forests, Madagascar
Rachid Firadi, Morocco
Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of Energy and Environment, Maldives
Eleanor Parkes, Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute, speaking on behalf of Children and Youth Major Group
Mariano Castro, Vice-Mnister for Environmental Management, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Delegates from China
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE
View of the multi-stakeholder dialogue on "Restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems for people and planet: partnerships
to jointly deliver on the environmental dimension of Agenda 2030"
L-R: Dialogue moderators, Andrew Steer, CEO, World Resources Institute (WRI), and Sharon Sharon Dijksma, State
Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands
Mark Halle, Director of Trade and Investment, International Institute for
Sustainable Development
Joan Carling, Secretary-General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Antonio Herman Benjamin, Justice of the National High Court, Brazil
Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Stakeholder Forum
O. C. Z. Muchinguri, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe
John Scanlon, Secretary-General, Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species
of
Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES)
Participants from Major Groups and Stakeholders
L-R: Andrea Reimer, Councilor, City of Vancouver, Canada, and Yunus Arikan, ICLEI
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (COW)
L-R: Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP; COW Chair Idunn Eidheim, Norway;
Tim Kasten, UNEP; and Masa Nagai, UNEP
COW Chair Idunn Eidheim, Norway
Hushan Al-Fityan, Rapporteur
Yahel Vilan, Israel
Drafting Group 1 Co-Chair Tita Korvenoja, Finland
Drafting Group 2 Co-Chair Pedro Escosteguy Cardoso, Brazil
Drafting Group 3 Co-Chair Corinna Enders,
Germany
UNEA-2 PLENARY
L-R: Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, President of UNEA-2
and Jorge
Laguna-Celis, Secretary of the Governing Bodies,
UNEP
Delegates from Arab States in informal consultations
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran and Head of the Environmental
Protection Organization
Voting flags being distributed in plenary
Masa Nagai, Senior Legal Advisor, UNEP, confers with UNEA-2 Secretariat on Rules of Procedure.
Highlights and images for 26 May 2016
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2016
On Thursday, the Bonn Climate Change Conference concluded. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) held closing plenaries in the morning and evening. A special joint plenary was held to thank UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres for her service, with all present congratulating her, including in song, for her leadership culminating in the Paris Agreement. In response, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Figueres thanked everyone, saying that she has “had the enormous privilege to be at your side as you made history.” In the afternoon and evening, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) held their closing plenaries.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has providing daily web coverage, daily reports from the Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2016. In adiition, IISD Reportaing Services has also published a summary and analysis report from this meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
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SBSTA Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the SBSTA closing plenary
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, SBSTA Coordinator
Manasvi Srisodapol, Thailand, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Aishath Aileen Niyaz, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Norbert Bärlocher, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Michel Rentenaar, EU
Andrea Faulkner, Australia, speaking on
behalf of the Umbrella Group
Eddy Pérez, Climate Action Network (CAN)
Shalia Shahid, Women and Gender
Victor Kabengele wa Kadilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
APA Consultations
Delegates during the APA consultations
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
Zhihua Chen, China
Delegates read the revised APA draft conclusions
Members of the Secretariat distribute the text
Joint Meeting of the SBI, SBSTA and APA: Farewell to Christiana Figueres
View of the dais during the joint meeting
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Laurence Tubiana, COP 21/CMP 11 Presidency
Aziz Mekouar, Incoming COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
Members of civil society sing 'Climate Queen,' a farewell song dedicated to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand, SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland, and Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa bid farewell
Delegates give UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres a standing ovation in recognition
of her important contribution to tackling climate change over the years
SBI Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the SBI closing plenary
Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Senegal
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Elena Kruspkaia Mejía Villacís, Ecuador
Mohamed Khalil, Egypt
Erwin Rose, US
Ilka Wagner, EU
Chebet Maikut, Uganda, speaking on behalf of the African Group
Emil Eduardo Calles Lossada, Venezuela
Delegates huddle during the final negotiations
APA Closing Plenary
View of the dais during the APA closing plenary
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Bouzekri Razi, COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
Anna Serzysko, APA Rapporteur
Alejandro Rivera, Mexico, speaking on behalf of the EIG
Frances Veronica Victorio, the Philippines
Olfa Jelassi, Women and Gender
Marilyn Averill, Research and Independent NGOs (RINGOs)
Jaime Hermida Castillo, Nicaragua, speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)
Johnson Hugo Cerda Shiguango, Indigenous Peoples
Héloïse Pichot, Youth NGOs (YOUNGOs)
Around the Venue
Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
Delegates from Germany
Delegates from Ghana
Delegates from Thailand and Singapore speak informally
Delegates in plenary
Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa sits with members of the UNFCCC Secretariat
Headsets available for delegates
Marcela Main Sancha, UNFCCC Secretariat, speaks with delegates
Wael Hmaidan, CAN, with UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Christiana Figueres
Observers watch proceedings from the balcony
Members of the Arab Group meet informally
World Conference Center Bonn security staff
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres enters the venue for her final session with the UNFCCC
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa thanks delegates for welcoming her into the UNFCCC process
Delegates use a 'poken' to gather materials during the paperless conference
An information booth for COP 22/CMP 12 in Marrakech
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) team covering the meeting (L-R): Kiara Worth; Beate Antonich; Virginia Wiseman; Jen Allan; Mari Luomi; Alice Bisiaux; Rishikesh Ram Bhandary; and Nancy Williams
Highlights and images for 26 May 2016
Resumed UNFSA Review Conference
The Resumed Review Conference convened for its penultimate day on Thursday at the UN Headquarters in New York. In the morning and afternoon, delegates discussed the draft text for the outcome of the Resumed Review Conference. A drafting committee continued discussion on the draft text into the evening.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports from the Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. In addition, IISD Reporting Services has also published a summary & analysis from this meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
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Plenary
Yongsheng Li, China
John Brincat, EU
Driss Meski, ICCAT
Stephen Willoughby, Barbados, and Craig Powell, Bahamas
Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, UNDOALOS Director
Pablo Trejo Carmona and
Cristian Laborda Mora, Chile
Kengo Tanaka, and Chiaki Mizugaki, Japan
Renée Sauvé, Canada
Michael Brakke, US
Margo Deiye, Nauru
Joan Yang, Nauru, and Luke Daunivalu, Fiji
Delegates consulting the outcome document
Fredrik Arrhenius, and Petter Nystrom, Sweden
Fábio Hazin, President of the Resumed Review Conference
Marshall Islands Delegation
Matthew Camilleri, FAO, and Dorothy Wanja Nyingi, IISD RS, Kenya
Patrick Moran, US, and Daniela Diz, IISD RS, Brazil
Elise Stull, FSM, and Rishi Bukoree, Mauritius
Delegates consulting
Side Event
Around the Venue
Daily report for 26 May 2016
UNEA-2
Daily report for 26 May 2016
Resumed UNFSA Review Conference
Highlights and images for 25 May 2016
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2016
On Wednesday, the Bonn Climate Change Conference continued with the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) meeting in open-ended informal consultations in the morning. A Technical Expert Meeting (TEM) on effective policy frameworks and institutional arrangements for adaptation planning and implementation took place in the morning and early afternoon. In the afternoon, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) held the first part of its closing plenary. Contact groups and informal consultations under the SBI and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) convened throughout the day.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has providing daily web coverage, daily reports from the Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2016. In adiition, IISD Reportaing Services has also published a summary and analysis report from this meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
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APA Consultations
Delegates in the APA consultations
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
Qian Zhou, China
Ismail Zahir, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Adriana Murillo, Costa Rica, speaking on behalf of the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)
Peter Horne, Australia
Christina Voigt, Norway
Kevin Herman, Canada
Kaveh Guilanpour, EU
Open-Ended Informal Consultations by Incoming COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
View of the dais during the open-ended informal consultations
Aziz Mekouar, Incoming COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
Sandea de Wet, South Africa
Trigg Talley, US
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking
on behalf of AOSIS
Birama Diarra, Mali, speaking on
behalf of the African Group
Contact Group on the Impact of the Implementation of Response Measures
SBI/SBSTA contact group on the impact of the implementation of response measures: improved forum and work programme
Morgenie Pillay, South Africa
Co-Facilitator Andrei Marcu, Panama
SBI Plenary
View of the dais during the SBI plenary
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Adao Soares Barbosa, Timor-Leste
Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation
Erwin Rose, US
Yang Weifeng, China
SBI/SBSTA Technical Expert Meeting on Adaptation: Effective Policy Frameworks and Institutional Arrangements for Adaptation Planning and Implementation
Opening panel for the Technical Expert Meeting
Aziz Mekouar, Incoming COP 22/CMP 12 Presidency
Facilitator Anne Hammill, International Institute
for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Evans Kaseke, Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM)
Hrin Nei Thiam, Myanmar
Akio Takemoto, Japan
Civil Society Action
Members of civil society participate in a sporting stunt urging negotiators to 'score a long-term goal of 1.5°C'
Around the Venue
Delegates meet between sessions
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland, speaks with a delegate
Ismo Ulvila, EU, with future climate activist Susanna Kulovesi
Delegates from the US, Canada, Japan and Australia
Henrik Eriksen, Norway, speaks with a delegate
Priscilla Mbarumun Achakpa, Nigeria, with
Angelina Ama Tutuah Mensah, Ghana
Yerima Peter Tarfa and Bello Yankuzo Sani, Nigeria,
with Richard Muyungi, Tanzania
Bernarditas Muller, Bolivia, speaks with delegates
Delegates review a document
Delegates around the venue
Daily report for 25 May 2016
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2016
Daily report for 25 May 2016
UNEA-2
Daily report for 25 May 2016
Resumed UNFSA Review Conference