Twenty-eighth meeting of the Working Group of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention
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juillet 2024The twenty-eighth meeting of the Convention’s Working Group of the Parties (WGP28) will take place in Geneva on 2-4 July 2024 (Palais des Nations, Salle XXVI).
The Working Group is expected to review the progress in implementing the current work programme and discuss a number of items, including progress achieved in promoting access to information, public participation and access to justice, and in ratification of the Convention’s amendment on genetically modified organisms; financial matters; and promotion of the Convention and relevant developments and interlinkages. The Working Group will also consider the impact of the war in Ukraine on the implementation of the Convention. Two thematic sessions, on access to justice and on promoting the application of the principles of the Convention in international forums, will be held during the meeting. See agenda for the meeting and more information below. Other documents will be uploaded on this webpage in due course.
More informations : https://unece.org/environmental-policy/events/twenty-eighth-meeting-working-group-parties-aarhus-convention
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Informations pratiques
Key dates to remember:
Registration for delegates requesting financial support: 15 May 2024
Registration for other delegates: 8 June 2024
Subscribing to the Speaker’s list: 18 June 2024
Submitting statements: 18 June 2024
For additional information, contact the Aarhus Convention secretariat at public.participation[at]un.org
The meeting will be held in an in-person format. Only in-person presence of Parties will be counted for decision-making. In addition, the secretariat is exploring possible options for remote connection for the registered participants, and will provide you with more details closer to the meeting. As for all UN public meetings, not registered participants can also connect to the meeting through audio means: https://listen-live.unog.ch/en/index.html