Background Documents for the 11th Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF - 11)

1) Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination amount the three Conventions
   - Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention

• Enhancing Synergy among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

2) International Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development

• Report of the second ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting
  on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem
  services
  
• Draft Agenda 
• Executive Director's Rome Paper 
• Information Note 1: Table of Governing Council versus General Assembly responsibilities
• Information Note 2: Overview of 'Environment in the UN system'
• Presentation by the Principal Adviser to the Executive Director to the Senior Officials meeting
• Set of options for improving international environmental governance (with Annex)
  
  

3) The Green Economy

• The Green Economy and International Environmental Governance

4) Biodiversity and Ecosystems

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) – Interim Report
• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity ( TEEB) for Policy Makers - Summary: Responding to the Value of Nature
• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - Fact sheet
• Gincana7: Biodiversity is Our Life. 2010 International Year of Biodiveristy
• Convention on Biological Diversity: Year in Review 2009
  

5) Rio + 20

• Stakeholder Forum Input
• European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councial (EEAC) Statement
• Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership - Pushing "Reset " on Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership - Rio + 20: Another World Summit?
• UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division for Sustainable Development
• Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20)
  

Additional Resources

• Report from the Global Environmental Governance Forum: Reflecting on the Past, Moving into the Future