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Date: 20 October, 2022 

Time: 9:00 am- 5:00 pm Costa Rica /10:00 am - 6:00 pm Panama (UTC-5) - 

Format: in person

Venue: Costa Rica 

According to paragraph 35 of the Bridgetown Declaration, the Bureau of the Forum of Ministers of Environment is responsible for the oversight of the performance of the Forum and should provide support for the functioning of the Forum together with the Director of UNEP. Therefore, the meeting of the Bureau of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean will be held at the end of October 2022 in the Republic of Costa Rica.

The meeting is organized by the Presidency of the Forum in charge of Mr. Franz Tattenbach, Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the Secretariat of the Forum.

This session of the Bureau of the Forum will allow to discuss and provide political guidance on the implementation of the work plan, the roadmap for 2022 - 2023.

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]

Information Note [español] [english]

Presentations español and english

Report of the meeting and Summary of the Chair  español and 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]