Opening plenary
Monday 8 December, 10 am, Conference Room 2.
Statements delivered during the opening plenary are available on the Statements page.
Agenda items/programme
1. Opening of the session [item 1]
- Statement by the President of the Environment Assembly
- Video message from the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Statement by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Statement by the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
- Statement by a representative of Kenya
2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work [item 2]
UNEP/EA.7/1, UNEP/EA.7/1/Add.1, UNEP/EA.7/INF/1
- Adoption of the agenda
- Establishment of a committee of the whole (if needed)
- Election of the chair and rapporteur of the committee of the whole (if needed)
- Allocation of agenda items 5 (International environmental policy and governance issues), 6 (Programme of work and budget and other administrative and budgetary issues) and 11(Provisional agenda, dates and venue of the eight session of the Environment Assembly) to the committee of the whole
- Consideration of other organizational arrangements
3. Opening of the session - continued [item 1]
Opening statements by regional and political groups
4. Stakeholder engagement [item 7]
Opening statements by each of the nine major groups
Joint statement on behalf of the Regional Facilitators of the major groups and stakeholders
Summary of the Cities and Regions Summit
5. Credentials of representatives [item 3]
The Assembly will decide to defer its consideration of the item to the plenary meeting on Thursday, 11 December, in the afternoon.
6. Report of the Committee of Permanent Representatives [item 4]
Presentation of the report of the seventh meeting of the Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives by the Chair of the CPR.
7. Contributions to the meetings of the high-level political forum on sustainable development and implementation of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [item 8]
