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SG HLP on UN System Wide Coherence in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment
1. 26 April 2006
UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES
Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence
in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Environment
ENVIRONMENT CONSULTATION
- Issues Note -
Nairobi, 5 May 2006
2. 2
BACKGROUND
2005 Summit Outcome
In the Outcome of the 2005 World Summit, world leaders recognized the need for more
efficient environmental activities in the UN system, with enhanced coordination and
improved normative and operational capacity, and agreed “to explore the possibility of
a more coherent institutional framework to address this need, including a more
integrated structure, building on existing institutions and internationally agreed
instruments, as well as the treaty bodies and specialized agencies”.
In terms of the normative work of the UN system, policy advice and guidance,
strengthened scientific knowledge, assessment and cooperation were identified as areas
which could be further improved. At the operational level, the need was identified for
better integration of environmental activities in the broader sustainable development
framework, including through capacity building. It was also recognized by the Summit
that better treaty compliance, while respecting the legal autonomy of the relevant
treaties, was a central consideration.
The Summit Outcome also stressed, in the section entitled “Sustainable development:
managing and protecting our common environment”, that “poverty eradication,
changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and protecting and
managing the natural resource base of economic and social development are
overarching objectives of and essential requirements for sustainable development”.
Furthermore, the Outcome enumerates an array of sectoral and cross-sectoral issues,
including among others, water resources, desertification, biodiversity, natural disasters,
energy, climate, forests, chemicals and hazardous wastes.
Context for Panel’s deliberations on environment
The need for coordination and coherence in the field of the environment is a theme that
Governments attach considerable importance to, and is one that has evolved and
become remarkably more complex as the global UN conferences of the 1990s and early
2000s have added to an already multi-faceted context. This complexity stems in large
part from the reality that environmental issues have become more clearly defined, inter-
linked and more important in nearly every major sector, and now permeate the work of
practically every UN organization. Furthermore, as one of the three pillars of
sustainable development, the environment dimension has been adopted as part of the
overarching framework of the UN’s activities.
Bearing in mind the increasingly serious nature of environmental challenges,
Environment Ministers, in preparing for the 10 year review of the 1992 Earth Summit
(UNCED), decided to establish a process to “review the requirements for a greatly
3. 3
strengthened institutional structure for international environmental governance based
on an assessment of future needs for an institutional architecture that has the capacity to
effectively address wide-ranging environmental threats in a globalizing world”. This
process was launched under the auspices of the UNEP Governing Council/Global
Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) and attracted wide-ranging attention and
involvement from academic institutions, NGOs and inter-governmental organizations.
It has resulted in a number of recommendations related to the role of the UNEP
GC/GMEF in international environmental policy making; strengthening the financial
situation of UNEP; improved coordination among and effectiveness of multilateral
environmental agreements; capacity building, technology transfer and country-level
coordination for the environmental pillar of sustainable development; and enhanced
coordination across the UN system, through the use of the UN Environmental
Management Group (EMG). The outcome of the process was adopted by UNEP’s
Governing Council/GMEF in February 2002 (decision GCSS.VII/1 on international
environmental governance) and subsequently endorsed by the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in 2002.
A number of other government-led initiatives have also been launched, with Germany
and Sweden hosting seminars with non- and inter-governmental organizations, and
Finland embarking on a sustainable development governance process. In 2003, France
established an informal working group of some 26 countries to consider the
transformation of UNEP into a UN Environment Organization. A series of meetings
have taken place in New York and Nairobi to consider strengths and weaknesses of the
current system of environmental governance, financing, the needs of developing
countries, the role of multilateral environmental agreements, monitoring and early
warning systems, communications strategies and institutional arrangements. Thus, in
terms of proposals to improve coherence, a wide variety of literature exists, both from
academic institutions and as a result of the inter-governmental process on international
environmental governance.
Most recently, the General Assembly, on 19 April 2006, launched informal
consultations on the institutional framework for the UN's environmental activities. In
order to provide a framework for these consultations, its co-chairs, Ambassador
Enrique Berruga (Mexico) and Ambassador Peter Maurer (Switzerland) have asked
Member States to focus on the following two questions in order to come to a
preliminary assessment of the issues:
In your country’s view, what are the major problems and challenges of the UN
system in its environmental work, specifically with regard to the needs identified in
paragraph 169 of the outcome document?
What could be envisaged in terms of a more coherent institutional framework aimed
at addressing these major problems and challenges?
4. 4
CONSULTATION OBJECTIVES
Interaction between Panel members and key actors in the field of the
environment, including select experts, UN partners and NGOs.
Enhanced understanding among Panel Members as to what are the key
environmental challenges that the UN system will have to effectively address at
the national, regional, and global levels over the short, medium and long term.
Enhanced understanding among Panel Members of the institutional framework
within which environment is dealt with by the UN system, and its strengths and
weaknesses.
Enhanced understanding among Panel Members with regard to a range of, and
rationale underpinning, recommendations that have been made with regard
building a more coherent institutional framework.
Enhanced understanding among Panel Members with regard to major challenges
to mainstreaming environment in development decision-making; as well as best
practices that have effectively linked the normative and operational aspects.
Development of an understanding among Panel Members with regard to the type
of proposals that they could put forward that would be ambitious and bold, yet
practically realizable within the current inter-governmental context and
consistent with the general framework of system wide coherence to be proposed.
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
Coherence in the normative and analytical work of the UN in the field of
environment
The current system is characterized by fragmentation and a lack of coherence, including
between the normative and operational aspects, hampering effectiveness and efficiency:
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current institutional framework within
which normative and analytical aspects of the UN’s work in the field of
environment are undertaken, including with regard to work undertaken under the
auspices of multilateral environmental agreements?
How could the UN develop a stronger scientific and analytic capacity in
monitoring, assessing and reporting on critical environmental trends?
How could the UN system ensure that global issues are adequately and adeptly
addressed by the UN system (i.e. climate change)?
5. 5
Institutional framework for the UN system’s environment activities
What could constitute an effective institutional framework for the UN system’s
environment activities, at the country, regional and global levels?
How could the UN best provide more comprehensive and coherent management
and monitoring of the implementation of the growing range of multilateral
environmental agreements?
Mainstreaming environment in development decision-making
The need for better integration of the environmental perspective within the broad
principle of sustainable development in UN country-level activities: How can
environment best be managed within the context of UN system country operations?
- Strengthening linkages between the UN’s normative and analytical
system and its operational activities;
- Enhancing the participation of Non-Resident Agencies in UN
country-level development activities and the role of the UN
Resident Coordinator System;
- Clarification of the relative roles of normative and operating
organizations;
- Ensuring that the main horizontal policy theme of sustainable
development is taken account of in decision-making.
How to ensure the better integration of the environmental perspective within
capacity building and technology support undertaken by the entire UN system.
Bearing in mind that principle 4 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and
Development (1992) stipulates that “In order to achieve sustainable development,
environmental protection shall constitute an integral part of the development
process and cannot be considered in isolation from it” – what have been the
challenges encountered, particularly by UNEP, in mainstreaming environment in
development decision-making?
What best practices exist for the integration of environment into development at the
country level and how can the UN build on such practices?
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