9 March 2018 - Global Pact for the Environment: Challenges and opportunities. What Role for International Geneva?
Friday 9 March 2018 - 10:30 - 12:30 / International Environment House - II
High-level discussion on the Global Pact for the Environment
On 19 September 2017, during the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, France launched the Global Pact for the Environment initiative. The Global Pact would build upon, among others, the Stockholm declaration, the Rio declaration, Rio +20, the Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 Agenda adopted in 2015, and the Paris Agreement which entered into force in 2016. The goal for the Pact is to codify and unite the guiding principles of environmental law into a single text with legal force.
This Geneva Environment Network event will aim to look at the contribution of the Global Pact to global environmental governance. It will inform participants on progress achieved, as well as potential risks and opportunities identified so far in the process. The specific role and contribution of the international community in Geneva in this process will also be discussed.
What changes are we witnessing in global leadership for the environment? And with hundreds of multilateral agreements already in place, what can the contribution of the Global Pact be?
What hopes do the youth of today hold for us to make “our planet great again” for a sustainable future for all, across generations in the context of the Global Pact initiative?
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Provisional Agenda
10:00
Networking coffee
10:30
Welcome and introduction
Jan DUSIK, United Nations Environment Programme, Europe Office, Director a.i.
10:35
Keynote presentations
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor of Law at the University of Geneva
French representative
Discussants
Franz Perrez, Ambassador, Head of International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Inger Andersen, Director, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Executive Director of Communications & Marketing, World Wildlife Fund International
Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary, Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm Conventions
French representative
Youth representative
Moderation: Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
11:30
Questions & answers
12:25
Closing remarks Ibrahim Thiaw
