UNEP Civil Society/NGO Consultation

Hi everyone,

If you are interested in receiving the report on the civil society
consultation
on international enviromental government that was held 22-23 May 2001 in
Nairobi, please send me a note at [email protected] and I'll send you the
report. Following is the introduction to the report.

Regards,

Dorothy

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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
GOVERNANCE
Nairobi, 22 and 23 May 2001

REPORT INTRODUCTION

1. At the twenty-first session of the Governing Council of the United
Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP)/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, held in
Nairobi from 5 to 9 February 2001, the Council adopted decision 21/21
entitled
"International environmental governance", in which it outlined a process for
the
review of the current state of international environmental governance and
the
submission of the results of the review to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, to be held in Johannesburg in 2002. The Council stipulated
that
the review process should benefit from, among other inputs, the views of
major
groups and individuals from outside the United Nations system.

2. The Civil Society Consultations on International Environmental Governance
were held on 22 and 23 May 2001 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi in order to
enable representatives of civil society organizations to give their views on
international environmental governance in general, and specifically on a
report
on the subject prepared by the Executive Director of UNEP (UNEP/IGM/1/2).
The
views expressed by the representatives of civil society would be taken into
account by the Executive Director in the subsequent stages of the review
process.

3. The consultations featured presentations by UNEP staff, selected
government
representatives and representatives of civil society
organizations, followed by plenary sessions, breaking up into groups to
discuss
key issues and reporting back to the plenary.

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