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OEWG-2 Meeting schedule:

Preparatory meetings and informal consultations :  9 - 10 December 2023

Detailed agenda for informal consultations: 9 December 2023 / Expected Outcomes of OEWG 2 PPT / Synthesis of Written Submissions PPT / Summary Report

OEWG-2 meeting (tentative) : 11 - 15 December 2023

Tentative Contact Group Schedule for 14 December 2023  

 

Reports

Report from OEWG 2

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Report from OEWG 1.2

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Report from OEWG 1.1

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Background Information

The venue of the second session of the ad hoc open-ended working group on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution (OEWG-2) was changed from Dead Sea, Jordan, to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

The meeting was held on 11 – 15 December 2023. Briefings and consultations were held on 9 and 10 December 2023 at the same venue, to support the discussions at OEWG-2.

The meeting was held as an in-person meeting and conducted in the six official languages of the United Nations. The meetings of the Plenary will be live-streamed.

Participants whose registration to OEWG-2 had already been approved remain eligible to participate in the meeting. The same event pass can be used for the new venue. 

Al participants should communicate any changes in their delegation list directly to the Secretariat through a Note Verbale, sent to spp-cwp@un.org.

 

List of OEWG 2 Participants: English

 

UNEP Nairobi

 

 

 

Working Documents (Posted 15 NOV 2023, unless otherwise indicated)

 

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/1* - Provisional agenda (adopted at OEWG1.2)

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/Add.1* - Draft annotated agenda 

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/2* - Skeleton outline for proposals for the establishment of a science-policy panel

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/3* - Scope and objective, functions and operating principles

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/4* Institutional arrangements and rules of procedure for sessions of the plenary

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/5* Relationships with relevant key stakeholders

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/6* Overview of work-related processes and procedures

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/7 - Update from the secretariat on work undertaken in the period between the first and second sessions, budget and expenditure and the provisional workplan

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Information Documents 

 

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/1 - Scenario note for the second session of the ad hoc open ended working group on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/2 - Background document on operating principles

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/3/ - Mapping of capacity-building activities in the chemicals, waste and pollution space

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/4 - Background document on institutional arrangements of existing science-policy interfaces

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/5 - Background document on the panel’s relationships with relevant key stakeholders

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/6 - Background document on the process for determining and executing the work programme of the panel

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/7 - Background document on the arrangements for identifying and engaging with experts to contribute to the work of the panel and on procedures for the review and adoption of reports and assessments produced by the panel

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/8 - Background document on procedures for addressing potential conflicts of interest

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/9 - Summary and analysis of submissions received on needs and questions the panel may handle

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/10/Rev.1 - Draft text for proposals to establish a science-policy panel

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UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/10/Add.1 - Proposal for a conflict-of-interest policy for the Science-Policy Panel

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/10/Add.2 - Procedures for receiving and prioritizing requests put to the Panel

UNEP/SPP-CWP/OEWG.2/INF/11 - Procedures for elections to fill vacancies in the Bureau of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on a science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution

For all OEWG 1.1 and OEWG 1.2 meeting documents, please visit the OEWG 1.1 and OEWG 1.2 meeting event pages.

For more information, please visit the OEWG website or contact the Secretariat at spp-cwp[at]un.org

The Secretariat invites Member States and observers and stakeholders who wish to provide their views on the OEWG 2 meeting documentation in writing, to do so and e-mail these to spp-cwp@un.org.

The deadline for submission was 30 November 2023.

Written submissions received by the deadline have been posted on the OEWG 2 webpage.

Written submissions have been previously requested on operating principles, and needs and questions the panel may handle. These submissions can be found at this link.  

 

Submissions on meeting documents

Government submission

Norway

Stakeholders submissions

Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research  |  GAHP  |  IPEN  |  RSC |  ISC  |  GRID-arendal  

 

Submissions on the science-policy panel

Stakeholders submissions

ESDO  |  ICENECDEV  |  SETAC  |  UHS  |  Joint Submission from 14 organisations*  |  IPCP 

 

*Apopo, Conflict and Environment Observatory, Centre for Environmental Initiatives “Ecoaction”, Legacies of War, Mines Advisory Group, Network for Industrially Contaminated Land In Europe (NICOLE), NICOLE Foundation, Norwegian People’s Aid, PAX, Society for the Environment, The Institution of Environmental Sciences, The International Humanitarian Law and Law Students Initiative, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Zoï Environment Network

Contact Group 1

Operating Principles - 11/12/23 6:00pm-7:30pm

Tuesday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Conflict of Interest - 12/12/23 1:30pm-2:30pm

Operating Principles - 12/12/23 6:30pm-8:10pm

Conflict of Interest - 12/12/23 8:30pm-9:30pm 

Revised COI Form Annex B 13/12/23 10:25am

Wednesday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Operating Principles - 13/12/23 2pm-3:30pm

Conflict of Interest - 13/12/23 4pm-5:30pm 

Operating Principles - 13/12/23 8:15pm-9:45pm

Thursday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Conflict of Interest - 14/12/23 12:00pm-1:30pm

Operating Principles - 14/12/23 2:30pm-4pm (to be updated)

Friday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

 

Contact Group 2

Institutional Arrangements- 11/12/23 6:30pm-9:00pm

Tuesday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Institutional Arrangements - 12/12/23 6:30pm-9:30pm

Wednesday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Institutional Arrangements - 13/12/23 11:30am-1:00pm

Institutional Arrangements - 13/12/23 6:30pm-9:45pm

Thursday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

Institutional Arrangements - 14/12/23 12pm-4pm

Friday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

 

Contact Group 3

Secretariat draft flowchart illustrating the process for the development and evaluation of outputs, as presented in Contact Group 3

Summary of Contact Group 3 on work-related processes and procedures of the panel

 

Contact Group 4

Intersessional Work - 14/12/23 11:20

Friday AM Update from the co-facilitator to the Chair

 

Conference room papers

L1 Draft report for the second session of the OEWG

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CRP.1 Draft provisional agenda for the third session of the OEWG 

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CRP.2/Rev.1 Institutional arrangements for the panel

CRP.3 Operating principles of the panel

CRP.4 Conflict-of-interest policy for the panel

CRP.5/Rev.1 Scope, objective and functions of the panel

CRP.6 Options for the timetable and organization of the future work of the ad hoc open-ended working group