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| 22-23 May 2006, Environment Watch, First global expert group meeting on environmental information networking, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen.
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UNEP is undertaking further consultations with Governments and partners on the proposed architecture of the Environment Watch system with a view to allowing the development and implementation of phase 1 of the system in the programme of work for 2008–2009 and the possible adoption of the architecture by the twenty-fourth session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum. The main objective is to consult with existing networks, regional bodies and international institutions which may serve as regional, functional and thematic focal partners in piloting the Environment Watch and to prepare a first draft of the guidelines for piloting the information network, building on experience from existing networks.
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| UNEP/GCSS.IX/3/Add.2. |
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| 20 - 24 JUNE 2005, GEO-4 First Production and Authors Meeting, Nairobi |
The first GEO-4
Production and Authors' Meeting was held in Nairobi, between 20-24 June
2005. The meeting, brought together about 180 environmental experts
from across the globe, with the aim of developing a comprehensive GEO-4 chapter outline,
focusing on key issues and key questions to be answered in each
chapter of the fourth Global Environment Outlook report. The meeting
addressed cross-cutting issues and linkages, gaps and overlaps among chapters.
The meeting was a direct response to the UNEP Governing Council Decisions:
GC.22/1/IB of February 2003 on early warning and assessment process of the
United Nations Environment Programme; and GC.23/6 of February 2005 on keeping
the world environmental situation under review. The GEO-4 Production and
Authors' Meeting also finalized the timetable for preparing the GEO-4
report, review process of draft material, timetable for regional and global
consultations as well as plans for the production of the report and launch in
September 2007.
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| 19
-20 February 2005, Global Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder Consultation on
the Fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), Nairobi. |
| The meeting is being convened as a direct response conclusions and
recommendations emanating from the intergovernmental consultation on
strengthening the scientific base of UNEP, which was held in January 2004, in
Nairobi. The meeting stressed, in particular, that interaction between science
and policy in environmental assessment processes (an issue to be taken up by
the Governing Council/Global
Ministerial Environment Forum at its twenty-third session) is essential
to ensuring legitimacy and relevance, and suggested that this could be achieved
through more effective intergovernmental and multi stakeholder consultations.
The need reinforce the Global Environment
Outlook process was also emphasized. |
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| Statement by the GEO 4 Consultation |
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As part of the implementation of Governing Council decision 22/1/IA on
strengthening the scientific base of UNEP, the Executive Director was
requested "to facilitate an intergovernmental consultation taking
into account available funding, transparency, regional balance and adequate
developing country participation, in preparation for the Governing Council/Global
Ministerial Environment Forum at its eighth special session" |
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16 January 2004, Interagency Meeting on Strengthening the Scientific Base of the UNEP,
Nairobi |
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Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) also organized an informal
one-day interagency meeting on 16 January 2004, to discuss interagency follow-up
on the outcomes of the intergovernmental consultation, and explore ways
and means to address the gaps and needs identified related to monitoring
and assessment of the environment and global environmental change. Participants
to the interagency meeting were also invited to be observers at the intergovernmental
consultation. |
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