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The second meeting of the
Open-Ended Intergovernmental Group of Ministers or Their Representatives
on International Environmental Governance met in Beethovenhalle, Bonn,
Germany on 17 July 2001. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
organized the meeting pursuant to decision 21/21 of the UNEP Governing
Council, which established an Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of
Ministers to undertake a comprehensive policy-oriented assessment of
weaknesses in existing international environmental institutions, and to
examine options for strengthened international environmental governance.
Two hundred participants from 75 countries were present, including 21
ministers and deputy ministers, experts, representatives from
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN-bodies and inter-governmental
organizations (IGOs). Delegates met for morning and afternoon plenary
sessions and listened to reports on the outcomes of recent consultations
of civil society and experts on international environmental governance,
and to hear statements by relevant international organizations and
national representatives on further issues in international environmental
governance.
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Chair
Karen Redman (Canada), UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer and
GEF CEO Mohamed El-Ashry
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UNEP
Executive Director Klaus Toepfer with UNFCCC Executive Secretary
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Nigeria
before the session begins; Simone Lovera, Friends of the Earth International
and UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Michael Zammit Cutajar
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Grace
Akamu, Climate Network Africa, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Tata Energy
and Resources Institute and
Lee Kimball, independent consultant
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