Seventh Meeting of the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen

• Provisional Agenda
• Provisional Annotated Agenda

• UNEA 4/14
• UNEA 5/2
• Advanced unedited version of the UNEP Executive Director's Report to UNEA-7

Presentations

Progress on the development of national action plans (NAPs) on sustainable nitrogen management.

• Sri Lanka - Ms. Sepali de Silva (Assistant Director, Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka), Ms. Annie Yang (International UNEP Consultant, University of Edinburgh, UK) and Mr. Sarath Nissanka (National UNEP Consultant, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
• Trinidad and Tobago - Ms. Gabrielle de Souza (Soil Scientist, Ministry of Land, Agriculture and Fisheries, Trinidad and Tobago), Mr. Abas Basir (International UNEP Consultant), and Mr. Gaius Eudoxie (National UNEP Consultant, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

Monitoring nitrogen pollution

• Developing an updated version of the Global Eutrophication Watch and a prototype national reporting system for SDG indicator 14.1.1a - Mr. Genki Terauchi, Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP)
• Global remotely sensed monitoring for national action plans on sustainable nitrogen management - Ms. Merrie Beth Neely, Global Science and Technology (GST) and Group of Earth Observations (GEO) Blue Planet

Updates by MEAs and Partners

• Update by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on policies and activities pertinent to nutrients - Mr. Pierre Brender, Programme Officer, Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use Unit, Transparency Division, (UNFCCC)
• Update by the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTA) on policies and activities pertinent to nutrients - Ms. Anna Gran, Denmark, Head of delegation to CLRTAP / Senior Adviser, Air Pollution Unit, Ministry of Environment and Gender Equality, Denmark
• Update by the UN Environment Programme Food Systems - Mr. James Lomax, Programme Management Officer, (UNEP)
• Sustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems - Mr. Haekoo KIM, Technical Advisor, Office of the Director, Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
• Update by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on nitrogen management in maritime transport - Mr Loukas Kontogiannis, Head, Marine Pollution, Sub-Division for Protective Measures, Marine Environment Division
• Update by the Secretariat of the ad hoc open-ended working group on a Science Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and the Prevention of Pollution - Ms. Tessa Goverse, Principal Coordinator of the Secretariat
• Update by iN-Net, an international network of networks - Mr. David Kanter, Associate Professor of
  Environmental Studies at New York University and the Chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative