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First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

24-28 March 2014 | UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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Intro - 24 March - 25 March - 26 March - 27 March - 28 March

Summary Highlights of the Meeting

Friday 28 March 2014

On Friday, delegates convened in open-ended contact groups on the science-policy interface, chemicals and waste, and in plenary to discuss preparations for UNEA for its sessions in 2014 and 2016. In the afternoon, the CPR Bureau met with heads of regional groups to agree on intersessional work and preparations for UNEA in June.

During the closing plenary in the afternoon, delegates agreed to forward draft UNEA decisions to the 127th meeting of the CPR for further consideration. CPR Chair Soemarno closed the meeting at 6:42pm.

Summary of the meeting in English and French (in HTML and in PDF format)

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Delegates from the EU consulting before the start of closing plenary

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP, consulting
with Toshiko Ohga, Deputy Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

UNEA AGENDA

L-R: UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia; Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP; Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur; and Toshiko Ohga, Deputy Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

Masa Nagai, UNEP

UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw

Ben Salacakau, Fiji

Amb. Lynette Poulton Kamakura, US

Kare Chawicha Debessa, Ethiopia

MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner

Amb. Johny Balza, Venezuela

Amb. Marcela Nicodemos, Brazil

Amb. John Moreti, Botswana

Amb. María Eugenia Correa Olarte,
Colombia

Amb. Minata Samate, Burkina Faso

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia, gaveled the meeting to a close at
6:42 pm

L-R: UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR,
Indonesia

Thursday 27 March 2014

On Thursday morning, delegates convened in open-ended contact group sessions to address the budget and programme of work (POW) and the science-policy interface (SPI). In the afternoon, contact group discussions on chemicals and waste management took place. In plenary, delegates considered the rules of procedure (RoP) of UNEA and participated in a thematic and programmatic debate on the role of UNEA in the UN system.

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Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia (center), consulting with UNEP and Thailand

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP, in conversation with
delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean

L-R: Jamil Ahmad, Deputy Director, UNEP Office in New York; UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair
of the OECPR, Indonesia; and Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

Carla Espósito Guevara, Bolivia

Sherif Dawoud, Egypt

Diann Black-Layne, Antigua and
Barbuda

L-R: Amb. Fernando Rollandeli, Maria Teresa Kralikas, and Jose Luis Maccarone, Argentina

Sun Guoshun, China

Amb. Lynette Poulton Kamakura, US

L-R: Marcos Orellana, Center for International Environmental Law, and Yunus Arikan, ICLEI

Wednesday 26 March 2014

On Wednesday morning, delegates convened in plenary to consider draft decisions, as well as progress reports on the work of the Environment Management Group (EMG), the mid-term review of the Montevideo Programme IV, and the state of the environment. In the afternoon delegates continued consideration of the state of the environment before addressing chemicals and wastes, and a draft decision on promoting air quality through UNEP.

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L-R: John Thompson, US, in conversation with Lei Zhang and Yingxian Xia, China

UNEP staff discussing strategies for the Global Environment Outlook
(GEO)

L-R: UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; CPR Vice-Chair Rosemary Semafumu-Mukasa, Uganda; and Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary
of Governing Bodies, UNEP

Eisaku Toda, Japan

George Morara Orina, Kenya

L-R: Luca Arnold, Switzerland, in conversation with Mohamed Elghitany, Egypt

Bakary Kante, Director, Division of Environmental Law and Conventions
(DELC), UNEP

Mariel Jiménez, Costa Rica

Mollie Johnson, Canada

Presentation on UNEP Live

Jacqueline McGlade, Chief Scientist, UNEP

Raylene Liufalani, New Zealand

Nino Sharashidze, Georgia

Yim Soo-Young, Republic of Korea

L-R: Lim Wei Da, Singapore; Donna Feliciano-Gatmaytan, the Philippines; Athikom Daengpun,
Thailand; and Manuel Oira III, the Philippines

View of the OECPR plenary

L-R: Mamadou Kane, Samba Harouna Thiam, and Monica Morara,
UNEP

L-R: Amb. Julia Pataki, Romania; UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia;
Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP; and Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur

Cheikh Ndiaye Sylla, Senegal

Zhang Jieqing, China

Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, EU

Jeff Cernyar, US

Andrés Comba Morales, Colombia

Deogratius E. P. Nyangu, Tanzania

Amb. Minata Samate, Burkina Faso

Elizabeth Mrema, Acting Director, Division of Environmental
Policy Implementation (DEPI), UNEP

Thomas Chiramba, DEPI, UNEP

Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary, IPBES

Neville Ash, Chief of Biodiversity Unit, DEPI, UNEP

Amb. Raúl Rodríguez Ramos, Cuba

Agostinho Milton, Mozambique

Antonio Otavio Sá Ricarte, Brazil

Monday 24 March 2014

On Tuesday morning delegates convened in plenary to consider stakeholder engagement, the science-policy interface (SPI), contributions by regional environment ministerial forums and the access-to-information policy. In the afternoon delegates addressed: the process to prepare a UN system-wide strategy on the environment; consolidation of UNEP headquarters functions in Nairobi; international water quality guidelines for ecosystems; and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Plaform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A working contact group on budget and POW also convened in the afternoon.

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View of the opening plenary of the OECPR

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP (center), consulting with
delegates

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner

Amb. Julia Pataki, Romania, acting Chair of the Committee
of Permanent Representatives, opened the meeting

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia

Amb. Andreas Peschke, Germany

Amb. Martin Kimani, Kenya

Amb. Eleftherios Kouvaritakis, Greece,
speaking on behalf of the EU

Kaveh Zahedi, Regional Director and Representative
for Asia and the Pacific, UNEP

Jamil Ahmad, Deputy Director, UNEP Office in New York

L-R: UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; CPR Vice-Chair Bart Ouvry, Belgium; and Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary
of Governing Bodies, UNEP

L-R: Petra Tacheci, Czech Republic; Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP; and
Lukáš Pokorný, Czech Republic

L-R: Andrea Nouak; Dominik Frühwirth; and Elfriede-Anna More, Austria

First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)