General Description
Date: 20 October 2022
TIme: 9:00 am- 5:00 pm Costa Rica /10:00 am - 6:00 pm Panama (UTC-5)
Format: Hybrid
Venue: Costa Rica
According to paragraph 35 of the Bridgetown Declaration, the Bureau of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment is in charge of supervising the performance of the Forum and must provide support for the functioning of the Forum together with the Director of UNEP. Therefore, the Bureau must meet periodically to provide inputs, contribute to monitoring and review the implementation of the Forum Decisions.
This meeting is organized by the Chair of the Forum, Mr. Franz Tattenbach, Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, supported by the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) as Secretariat of the Forum.
This session of the Bureau of the Forum will allow discussion and provide political guidance on the implementation of the work plan, the roadmap for the inter-sectoral period of 2022-2023, and addressing urgent emerging issues for the region.
For more information, please contact the Forum Secretariat at unep-rolac-forumofministers@un.org
WORKING DOCUMENTS
Provisional Agenda UNEP/LAC/B1-2022.1 [español] [english]
Annotated Agenda UNEP/LAC/B1-2022.2 [español] [english]
Tentative Roadmap UNEP/LAC/B1-2022.3 [español] [english]
Workplan UNEP/LAC/B1-2022.4 [español] [english]
Final Report of the Meeting UNEP/LAC/B1/2022.5 [español] [english]
Information Note [español] [english]
Presentations [español] [english]
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS
Agenda Item 4.1 - A Call to strengthen action to “Minimize” and “Address” Loss and Damage in the LAC region [español] [english]
Agenda Item 4.2 - Information Note on the development of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework [español] [english]
Agenda Item 4.3 - Discussion on emerging priority issues of regional relevance: INC-1 on the Global Agreement on Plastics and Marine Pollution: where we are and how to strengthen regional coordination? [español] [english]
Agenda Item 4.4 – Sustainable Oceans: proposal on the potential creation of the Oceans Commission [español] [english]
COUNTRY PROPOSALS
Ecuador - Policy Vission: 10 points plan to finance biodiversity [español]
Ecuador - Concept Note: 10 points plan to finance biodiversity [español]
Uruguay - INC-1 The Global Agreement on Plastics and Marine Pollution (Uruguay, 2022): where are we and how to deepen regional cooperation? [español]