#Environment: What's Up in #GENeva from 24-30 Nov?
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✅ Road to #UNEA7
✅ #UNForumBHR
✅ #COP30
✅ Knowledge Hub #Minerals #Metals
✅ #AarhusPRTRsMoPs
✅ #FCTCCOP11
✅ #CITESCoP20
✅ #GreenAutumn
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The #PRTRMoPP5 Chair gavels the meeting to a close at 16:55 CET, thus concluding #AarhusPRTRsMoPs.
Consult the highlights of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "#PRTRs in Action: Tools and Country Experiences".
The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event that will showcase the new #PRTRs management scheme in the IOMC Toolbox for Decision-Making to help countries achieve the goals of the Global Framework on Chemicals #GFC. @unitar.bsky.social @oecd-env.bsky.social
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It's Day 5⃣ of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs!
The final day of the week-long series of meetings will be dedicated to the Fifth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers. #PRTRs #PRTRMOPP5
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Consult highlights of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs reception.
The Chair of the High-level Segment moves #AarhusMOP8 to a close at 17:43 CET. #AarhusPRTRsMoPs
The Joint High-Level Segment resumes at Palais des Nations as the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs are expected to tackle the #GENeva Declaration on advancing public rights to tackle the triple planetary crisis in the face of geopolitical tensions.
Consult the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "Multistakeholder Support for Escazú and Aarhus Implementation".
The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "Multistakeholder Support for Escazú and Aarhus Implementation", discussing challenges & opportunities for promoting multistakeholder and cross-regional cooperation and presenting good practices on the three Aarhus pillars.
Excellent overview on the havoc the UK tried to wreak at the Mtg of the Parties to the #AarhusConvention this week at the UN in Geneva - a serious low in respect of their international reputation IMPO
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#AccesstoJustice
#AarhusPRTRsMoPs, #MOP8Aarhus #PRTRMOPP5
The second panel at the joint high-level segment of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs commences at Palais des Nations.
Consult highlights of this morning's #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "The Role of the Aarhus Centres in Advancing Convention’s Implementation”.
It's Day 4⃣ of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs!
Delegates and observers gather for the Joint High-Level Segment which will focus on the role of the #AarhusConvention and its Protocol in advancing public rights to tackle the #TriplePlanetaryCrisis.
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The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "The Role of the Aarhus Centres in Advancing Convention’s Implementation” which will explore the unique role of Aarhus Centres in promoting transparency, inclusivity, and sustainable environmental governments.
In the margins of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs, the GEN is at a discussion on safeguarding human rights defenders, sharing lessons from defenders' testimonies & work of SR env't defenders, to turn them into recommendations to better protect defenders.
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Having finished their work in contact groups, Parties to #AarhusMoP8 have also reelected and elected members of the Compliance Committee. #AarhusPRTRsMoPs
In a vote on Day 3 of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs, Parties to #AarhusMoP8 have elected @michelforst.bsky.social to continue his mandate on his second term as Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders under the #AarhusConvention, to which he will continue to do his work "impartially and conscientiously."
Consult highlights of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event "Children, Youth and Aarhus Rights in the light of the growing recognition of the rights to a health environment”.
The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "Children, Youth and Aarhus Rights in the light of the growing recognition of the rights to a health environment”, exploring how #R2HE strengthens procedural rights under the Convention for children and youth.
Consult the stories of some of the testimonies presented at this #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event and more 📄 eeb.org/wp-content/u...
Consult highlights of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "Defending the defenders: Awareness raising, Testimonies and Mutual Learning".
It's Day 3⃣ of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs!
As delegates return to plenary to advance the work, the meeting commences with the report of the UNECE #AarhusConvention Special Rapporteur Michel Forst on the protection of #EnvironmentalDefenders.
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The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event, "Defending the defenders: Awareness raising, Testimonies and Mutual Learning", which will offer a dedicated space for learning from environmental defenders & raising awareness of the need to protect them.
Consult highlights of the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event on "Promoting transparency and participatory approaches to biosafety-related decision-making".
The GEN is at the #AarhusPRTRsMoPs side event on "Promoting transparency and participatory approaches to biosafety-related decision-making", noting the GMO Amendment’s entry into force & promoting stronger public engagement under the #AarhusConvention & Cartagena Protocol.
Plenary breaks for lunch, as the contact group on the rapid response mechanism continues its work over the break. #AarhusPRTRsMoPs
At Place des Nations, a protest is taking place in the margins of #AarhusPRTRsMoPs against the Winter Olympics set to take place in #France, in light of what protesters deemed to be serious environmental consequences hosting the sporting event would bring.
