Discussions of governance continue

摘要

The Open-Ended Intergovernmental Group of Ministers or their Representatives on International Environmental Governance (IEG) met for the second time at the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany on 17 July 2001. As agreed during the last Governing Council,2 it was scheduled parallel to another ministerial meeting, the continuation of the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) which began the day before. Two hundred participants from 75 countries were present,including 21 ministers and deputy ministers, and various representatives from other UN agencies and Conventions secretariats, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and inter-governmental organisations (IGOs).