IISD RS @ GCSS-12/GMEF, 20-22 February 2012, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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Twelfth Special Session of the Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-12/GMEF) of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

20-22 February 2012 | UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

DAILY WEB COVERAGE

| Mon. 20 Feb. | Tue. 21 Feb. | Wed. 22 Feb. |

Highlights for Wednesday, 22 February 2012

On Wednesday morning delegates convened in the COW, and for a ministerial moderated plenary discussion on Rio+20 and beyond: responding to the challenges. The closing GCSS-12/GMEF plenary took place in the afternoon when the President’s Summary on the outcome of ministerial consultations was introduced. Delegates adopted seven decisions on: accounting, financial and administrative arrangements between UNEP and the MEAs; enhancing cooperation and coordination with the chemicals and wastes cluster; a consultative process on financing options for chemicals and wastes; the world environment situation; IEG; sustainable consumption and production; and the UNEP 40th Anniversary Ministerial Statement. GC/GMEF President Federico Ramos de Armas, (Spain), graveled the meeting to a close at 7:25pm.

Arrival of the Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka (center) at the GCSS-12/GMEF.

L-R: Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Kalonzo Musyoka, Vice-President, Kenya; and Federico Ramos de Armas, (Spain), President of the GC

Sha Zukang, Secretary-General, UNCSD

Mark Halle, IISD

Ida Auken, Minister of Environment, Denmark

Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, US

Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture

Adriana Soto, Vice-Minister of Environment, Colombia

Delegates from Kenya

Exhibition booth on sustainable water production on the margins of GCSS-12/GMEF.

Participants inquiring about the "Wonderbag."

Booth on portable off-grid solar power generators.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (COW)

L-R: Amina Mohamed, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP, and László Borbély, COW Chair, Romania

L-R: John Matuszak, US, confers with Jamil Ahmad, Secretary, GC.

Liana Bratasida, Indonesia, COW Rapporteur

Kerstin Stendahl, Chair of the open-ended drafting group of the COW, Finland

Gregoire Nkeoua, Congo

Delegates from the US.

Amb John Ashe, Permanent Representative to the UN, Antigua and Barbuda

Rabiu Sulaiman, Nigeria

Franz Perrez, Switzerland

Franz Perrez, Switzerland, consulting with delegates from Africa.

L-R: Sergey Trepelkov and Victor Zagrekov, Russian Federation

L-R: Hem Pande and M. F. Farooqui, India

L-R: Fu Changhua and Xia Yingxian, China

Delegates from Indonesia

L-R: Donna Celeste Feliciano-Gatmaytan and James Ferdinand Unas, the Philippines

CLOSING SESSION

GCSS-12 closing plenary observed a minute of silence in honor of the passing of John Njoroge Michuki, Minister for Environment and Natural Resources, Kenya.

GC Rapporteur Ana Paula Chichava, Minister for Environment, Mozambique

László Borbély, COW Chair, Romania, presenting the report of the COW.

Federico Ramos de Armas, (Spain), President of the GC, gaveled the meeting to a close at 7:25pm.