MINISTERIAL CONSULTATIONS:
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Bird's eye view of the Ministerial
Consultations in session. |
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Kamalesh
Sharma, Secretary General, Commonwealth
Secretariat, moderated the ministerial consultations
on the theme "IEG- Help or hindrance? - IEG
from a country perspective." |
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John
Michuki, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources,
Kenya |
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Marthinus
Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism, South Africa, with John Scanlon, UNEP |
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Roberto
Dobles Mora, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa
Rica |
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:
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Dais
during the evening session of the COW, with Ibrahim
Thiaw, UNEP; Bakary Kante, UNEP; Angela Cropper,
UNEP Deputy Executive Director; Jukka
Uosukainen, Finland, Gaetano Leone, Secretary of
the COW and Juan Carlos Cue Vega, Rapporteur. |
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Angela
Cropper, UNEP Deputy Executive Director in discussion with
Jukka
Uosukainen, Finland, Gaetano Leone, Secretary of
the COW and Juan Carlos Cue Vega, Rapporteur. |
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Delegates
review text from a draft decision. |
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CONTACT GROUPS AND INFORMAL GROUPS:
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CHEMICALS:
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Contact Group on
Chemicals Management in session. |
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L-R:
Hodayah Finman and John Thompson, US |
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Ottavio
Trindade, Brazil |
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UNEP Chemicals
staff and Co-Chairs John Roberts, UK and Festus
Bayoora, Uganda celebrate approval of the draft
decision on mercury. |
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John
Roberts, UK, with Gillian
Guthrie, Jamaica. |
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L-R:
Richard Gutierrez, Ban Toxics, Keiko Segawa,
Eriko Suda, and Kaoru Oka, Japan |
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John
Thompson, US, and Xia Ying Xian, China
shook hands upon the approval of the decision on
mercury. |
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"Yes We
Have!" chanted UNEP staff and delegates after the
decision on mercury was approved; Dan Fantozzi,
US with UNEP's Per Bakken, David Piper, Sheila
Logan and Surya Prakash Chandak. |
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SIDE EVENT: Access to
Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in
environmental matters - UNEP Guidlines for enhancing Implementation of
Rio Principle 10
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AROUND THE BREEZEWAYS:
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Tariq Banuri,
UN CSD, Kilaparti Ramakrishna, UNEP, and Jamil
Ahmad, Secretary of the Governing Council |
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Xenya
Cherny Scanlon, UNEP |
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Neeyati
Patel, UNEP with Mary Fosi Mbantenkhu, Cameroon |
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