Global Ministerial Environment Forum


At the twenty-third session of UNEP's Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS/GMEF), governments agreed to make energy and its links to the environment the focus of their next gathering. This was conducted in Dubai on 6-9 February 2006, prior to the fourteenth session of the United Nations Commission on SustainableDevelopment (CSD) of 1-12 May 2006, which reviewed progress on energy, among other issues.

A UNEP background paper to the GCSS/GMEF presented the main energy issues facing the world today, with a focus on environmental effects and consequences. The discussions, which this paper was intended to support, resulted in a summary by the chair person, with no negotiated text being produced. The GCSS/GMEF thus provided ministers the opportunity to engage in open discussions on energy and environment, in advance of the CSD negotiations.

Summary report of the President of the discussions by ministers and heads of delegation at the ninth special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme.. download report here