Prepared pursuant to paragraph 2 of Governing Council decision 26/1, the present report suggests that the Governing Council adopt a draft decision on incremental improvements to international environmental governance, and provides relevant information. It also describes progress in the implementation of decision 26/1, pursuant to paragraph 7 of that decision.

Agenda for the Session

The present report presents the outcome of the informal open-ended consultations held by the President of the United Nations Environment Assembly with Member States. The aim of the consultations was to formulate new proposals on the following outstanding elements of a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) policy on stakeholder engagement: (a) Definition of stakeholder; (b) Accreditation process and criteria; (c) Access to pre-session and in-session documents; (d) Meetings of accredited major groups and stakeholders with the Bureau of the United Nations Environment Assembly.

The United Nations Environment Assembly encourages countries to continue their efforts to strengthen international dialogue and cooperation, technical assistance and capacity-building in support of the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, taking into account relevant advances, instruments, experiences and practices since its adoption, and to work for the strengthening of environmental rule of law at the international, regional and national levels;