Showing posts with label ISA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISA. Show all posts
Thursday, July 7, 2011
EP: Climate Report Rejected
On the 5 July, the European Parliament rejected the report from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety calling for the EU to set out an ambitious climate policy and increase its CO2 reduction target to 30% by 2020. Nonetheless, the failure to reach 30% doesn’t change the Union's ambitious negotiating position for COP-17 to UNFCCC.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
UNCLOS: MSP-21 Outcomes
The 21st meeting of States parties to UNCLOS focused on administrative and budgetary questions relating to ITLOS, information reported by the Secretary-General of the ISA and the Chairman of CLCS, and the election of seven Tribunal members.
On the opening day, parties elected several Bureau members and the provisional agenda for their week-long session. They also elected by acclamation Camillo Gonsalves (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) as President of the meeting, who underscored the importance of the Convention for the sustainable use of ocean resources, navigation and protection of the marine environment.
On issues relating to CLCS, meeting participants asked the Commission to consider meeting in New York, simultaneously with its subcommissions, for up to six months annually over the next five years, and recommended that any request for Secretariat resources to facilitate more working weeks be presented to the UN/GA during its 66th session.
UNCLOS parties also adopted by consensus a draft decision that recalls the obligation of States with experts serving on the Commission to defray all their related expenses, and urged those States to ensure their experts’ full participation in the Commission’s work. The draft further urged those States parties in a position to do so to make contributions to the Voluntary Trust Fund.
Meeting Website
On the opening day, parties elected several Bureau members and the provisional agenda for their week-long session. They also elected by acclamation Camillo Gonsalves (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) as President of the meeting, who underscored the importance of the Convention for the sustainable use of ocean resources, navigation and protection of the marine environment.
On issues relating to CLCS, meeting participants asked the Commission to consider meeting in New York, simultaneously with its subcommissions, for up to six months annually over the next five years, and recommended that any request for Secretariat resources to facilitate more working weeks be presented to the UN/GA during its 66th session.
UNCLOS parties also adopted by consensus a draft decision that recalls the obligation of States with experts serving on the Commission to defray all their related expenses, and urged those States to ensure their experts’ full participation in the Commission’s work. The draft further urged those States parties in a position to do so to make contributions to the Voluntary Trust Fund.
Meeting Website
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