United Nations Environment Programme
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UNEP Event
Second Global Meeting of National Focal Points
3 - 6 June 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
- Overview
- Side events
- Global training on the "high seas treaty"
Following the first global meeting of national focal points for Montevideo Programme V, which was held in two segments: an online segment from 2 to 4 June 2021, and an in-person segment, in hybrid format, at the United Nations Office in Nairobi from 6 to 9 June 2022, national focal points will reconvene for the second global meeting from Monday, 3 June to Wednesday, 5 June 2024, at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.
The meeting will focus on implementing the Programme, emphasizing environmental procedural rights. It will feature the launch of the Fifth Montevideo Programme on Environmental Law handbook. Additionally, it will coincide with a global training session on the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction, scheduled for Thursday, 6 June 2024.
Ahead of the global meeting, a two-day hybrid symposium on emerging issues in environmental rule of law will be held from 30 to 31 May 2024. The symposium will explore key aspects of environmental governance, particularly the roles of academia and civil society in advancing environmental rule of law, including through the Montevideo Environmental Law Programme.
Please do not hesitate to write to us at unep-montevideo@un.org, should you have any queries.
Side events will be held in a hybrid format.
Air Quality Good Governance: Facilitating Access to Procedural Rights and Access to Justice for Clean Air
Monday, 3 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 9, United Nations Office in Nairobi | Join online
Why and How to Measure the Effectiveness of Environmental Rule of Law: The Role of Legal Indicators
Monday, 3 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 10, United Nations Office in Nairobi | Join online
Regional Multilateralism to Implement Access Rights: The Leading Example of the Escazú Agreement
Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 9, United Nations Office in Nairobi | Join online
Legal Preparedness to Ratify and Implement a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution
Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 10, United Nations Office in Nairobi | Join online
Environmental Rule of Law and Human Rights: SLAPPs and Procedural Environmental Rights
Wednesday 5 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 9, United Nations Office in Nairobi | Join online
Understanding Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Democracy
Wednesday, 5 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 10, United Nations Office in Nairobi
Conservation of Fisheries in High Seas
Thursday, 6 June 2024 | 1.30 – 2.30 p.m. (East Africa Time) | Conference Room 9, United Nations Office in Nairobi
On 19 June 2023, the Intergovernmental Conference (convened by General Assembly resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017) adopted, by consensus, the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement). The BBNJ Agreement is also known as the "high seas treaty".
Together with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)) and the UNEP Ecosystems Division, and with the participation of the OLA Treaty Section, the UNEP Law Division is organizing a training on 6 June 2024, to facilitate awareness and understanding of the BBNJ Agreement and encourage countries to adopt measures at the national and regional level that would support the swift entry into force and effective implementation in the future of the Agreement.
