UNEP Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch - Civil Society Accreditation
The
Eighth Global Civil Society Forum (8th GCSF) Daily Update
Day
One: Saturday 3 February 2007
Opening
Session
At the
podium (from left to right): Olivier Deleuze, Chief Major
Groups and Stakeholders Branch; Beverly Miller, Secretary
of the Governing Council; Shafqat Kakakhel, UNEP Deputy Executive
Director; Cristina Boelcke, Director of the Division of Regional
Cooperation and Representation and Professor M. Koech, Chair
of the Global Steering Committee.
More
than 160 participants from 65 countries took part in the opening
session of the 8th Global Civil Society Forum (GCSF) which
is taking place in Nairobi from 3 to 4 February 2007.
The Global Steering Committee presented the Global Civil Society Statement and UNEP presented the draft decisions of the GC/GMEF. Resource persons from UNEP and major groups elaborated further on the issues at stake during the GC/GMEF and highlight how perspectives from major groups can be brought in.
K. Ramakrishna, UNEP Policy Advisor,
Espoke of ecosystem services and human well-being during the
first session.
Tim Kasten, Chief of UNEP's Natural Resources Branch spoke
of UNEP water policy and strategy.
Mathew Gubb, Coordinator of the SAICM Secretariat, spoke of
Chemicals management. He also answered questions from civil
society delegates on the topic.
