ENVIRONMENT - UNECE Special Session of the Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP)

The CEP special session was devoted to the preparation of the Ninth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference scheduled for 5-7 October 2022 in Nicosia; issues of the Environmental Performance Review Programme; and the presentation and exchange of views on the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme.

date: 30/06/2022

The decisions of the special session were adopted by the silent procedure completed on 26 May 2022. The decisions include:

to finalise the two draft thematic documents for the Ninth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, (1) Greening the economy in the pan-European region: working towards sustainable infrastructure, and (2) Applying principles of circular economy to sustainable tourism;
to agree to the draft summary for policymakers of the document Europe’s Environment: the Seventh pan-European environmental assessment, to submit it to the Ninth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, and to request that the Secretariat publish the full pan-European environmental assessment in time for the Ninth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference;
to finalise the progress report on the implementation of the Batumi Initiative on Green Economy and issue it as an official document for the Nicosia Conference; and
to finalise the report on the implementation of the Batumi Action for Cleaner Air and issue it as an official document for the Nicosia Conference.

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UNECE Special Session of the Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP) | Hybrid, Geneva, 9-12 May 2022