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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

Highlights for Tuesday, 25 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.

View of the OECPR plenary

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

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia

CPR Vice-Chair Julia Pataki, Romania

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

Mohamed Elghitany, Egypt

Amb. Lynette Poulton Kamakura, US

Cheikh Ndiaye Sylla, Senegal

Zhang Jieqing, China

Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, EU

Thomas Ball, Norway

Andrés Comba Morales, Colombia

Marcos Orellana, Center for International Environmental Law,
speaking on behalf of Major Groups

SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE

Jacqueline McGlade, Chief Scientist, UNEP

Anik Kohli, Switzerland

Sherif Dawoud, Egypt

Maria Teresa Kralikas, Argentina

CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE REGIONAL MINISTERIAL ENVIRONMENT FORUMS
AND ACCESS-TO-INFORMATION POLICY

Munyaradzi Chenje, UNEP

Masa Nagai, Deputy Director, Division of Environmental
Law and Conventions (DELC), UNEP

Deogratius E. P. Nyangu, Tanzania

Amb. Minata Samate, Burkina Faso

Amb. Raúl Rodríguez Ramos, Cuba

Agostinho Milton, Mozambique

Antonio Otavio Sá Ricarte, Brazil

Enrique Lendo, Mexico

Nodirjon Yunusov, Uzbekistan

Amb. Abdelmoneim Mohammed Mabrouk,
League of Arab States

Nino Sharashidze, Georgia

Mollie Johnson, Canada

L-R: UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; CPR Vice-Chair Rosemary Semafumu-Mukasa, Uganda; Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of
Governing Bodies, UNEP; and Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur

CONSOLIDATION OF UNEP HEADQUARTERS FUNCTIONS IN NAIROBI

Michele Candotti, UNEP

J. Christophe Bouvier, UNEP

INTERNATIONAL WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES FOR ECOSYSTEMS

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

Thomas Chiramba, DEPI, UNEP

Mario Díaz Anzueto, Guatemala

Walker Smith, US

Amb. Kelebert Nkomani, Zimbabwe

IPBES

Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary, IPBES

Neville Ash, Chief of Biodiversity Unit, DEPI, UNEP

Lineth Arcía, Panama

Eisaku Toda, Japan

Ahn Se Chang, Republic of Korea

Related Links

Meeting resources

Annotated agenda

Major Groups and Stakeholders Participation in the 2014 OECPR and UNEA

CPR general information

Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.1

Report on the Implementation of decision 27/2: Contributions by the regional ministerial environment forums for which UNEP serves as the Secretariat(27/2, OP15), Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.2

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Implementation of decision 27/4 on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.1

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Environment Management Group’s work - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.2

State of the environment: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4

Support structures and processes for keeping the world environment situation under review, including a progress report on UNEP Live: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4/

UNEP’s access-to-information policy

Report on Montevideo Programme IV midterm process

IISD RS resources

IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-seventh Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC27/GMEF), 18-22 February 2013, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

IISD RS coverage of the Twelfth Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council (GCSS-12/GMEF), 20-22 February 2012, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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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)