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Stockholm+50 Background Document for UNEA 5.1 (Feb 2021) Stockholm+50 A commemorative event to celebrate 50 years of global environmental work A background note for Consultation 4 during the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders’ Forum, the GMGFC, February 9 – 11, 2021, the online preparatory meeting for the first session of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly, UNEA 5.1 A Paper by Stakeholder Forum INTRODUCTION This document has been written with the purpose of outlining a background to the consultation on ‘Stockholm +50’ which was organised during the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders’ Forum, the GMGFC on February the 10th, 2021 as a preparatory meeting for the UNEA 5.1. The consultation, which was also referred to as Consultation 4, was organised by the Major Groups Facilitation Committee, the MGFC at the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP as a part of five thematic consultations in connection with UNEA 5.1 The programme for the consultation can be found at the end of this paper. The presenters at the consultation were free to choose their approach emphasising the issues they felt were important. They were not to be bound in any way by the content in this document. As such, this document was and is not a policy document. The document has been researched and written by Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Senior Advisor on Governance for Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. Any mistakes or erroneous conclusions are his and his only. Mr. Strandenaes would like to thank Ms. Teresa Oberhauser, Focal Point for the Children and Youth Major Group at UNEP, and co-facilitator for the upcoming consultation on the Stockholm + 50 sessions, the Ministry for Environment of Sweden, and the Civil Society Unit at UNEP for their comments. Stockholm +50, a few thoughts| There is a need and a plethora of reasons to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the world’s environment organisation, UNEP. There is an equal need to commemorate and also celebrate the Stockholm meeting which, back in 1972, began the existence of this organisation. The 1972 conference was aptly named the “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment,” herein referred to as the Stockholm Conference. The Stockholm conference established an environmental process that has, through fifty years, had a ripple of advantageous effects, and there is an urgent need to strengthen these trends, and to diversify, intensify, and actualise them. The legacy of the Stockholm meeting should be clearly identified and viewed as a platform to spur environmental research, policies, and solutions to existing environmental problems. With the experience of fifty years of environmental work, this legacy should also be an incitement to develop systems to identify emerging issues and act on credible evidence predicting possible future environmental trends. Two issues may sustain such an idea: UNEP identified the stability of climate as a future challenge in the 1970s and identified several possible scenarios to act upon most of which have played out in real life. Yet its warning about future climate problems went unheeded when it was highlighted back then. In the run-up to the 1992 UN conference in Rio on the environment and development, known as the Earth Summit, as well as in the run-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the WSSD, in Johannesburg in 2002 as well as in the run-up to Rio+20 in 2012, 21 UNEP with the World Health Organization (WHO) presented serious and convincing reports about the interrelationship between nature and health, stating the necessity of maintaining a balance between these two worlds. The reports alerted the world to a possible unstable future wrought with difficulties if this precarious balance was jeopardized. This foresight was not acted upon, and the world is now struggling to fight off a global pandemic of devastating dimensions and consequences. Thematic content for Stockholm + 50, at the moment, at the official level| During his statement at the High-Level segment at the UN General Assembly session in September 2020, commemorating UN at 75, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Løfven invited Member States to a High-Level meeting in Sweden to be held on June 1-3 in 2022 to commemorate the Stockholm conference. He referred to four issues that could be discussed at such a high-level meeting with the purpose of accelerating development: • Commemorating UNEP; • The Green transition; • Honouring the Paris Agreement; and • Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The Swedish government has established a secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Environment to work on Stockholm +50. Headed by an Ambassador, they have proposed an overarching theme for the High-level meeting scheduled to take place on June 1 – 3, 2022, and have begun to further develop a thematic agenda. So far, the following themes have been identified. The Swedish ministry has proposed that the overarching and official theme for the High-level meeting could be: “A healthy Planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity,” and the additional themes are: • Green transition in relation to sustainable consumption and production; • Redefining the relationship to nature • The Green recovery and transition • Role of nature-based solutions. • The role of youth Stockholm + 50, Major Groups and non-state stakeholders| The major groups and non-state stakeholders have engaged in the discussion about the Stockholm +50 conference. Already, during the Oslo June 2020 United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) Bureaux consultation, thematic input was discussed. The Swedish Ministry of Environment informed the Swedish non-state stakeholders in a consultation on December 16, 2020, about its work, and the Stockholm + 50 conference featured prominently on the agenda for the UNEP Major Groups Regional Consultation Meeting for Europe on December 16 and 17, 2020. Stakeholder Forum has also engaged itself in both “UNEP@50” and “Stockholm plus 50,” and have informed the larger global stakeholder community through several of capacity- building webinar training sessions carried out on assignment for UNEP. 3 Among the more prominent themes discussed by the non-state stakeholders in relation to Stockholm + 50, have been: • A Pact for the Environment – developing UNGA res 73/333 as a declaration from the Stockholm+50 meeting; • Integrating Ecocide; and • Expanding on issues relating to environmental law and environmental rights. • The Major Groups and Stakeholder consultation during the UNEA 5.1 process will deal with the thematic input in the Stockholm + 50 conference, and there are at least two identified challenges in connection with the Stockholm Conference: • To use the Stockholm + 50 Conference to highlight environmental challenges, strengthen UNEP, and further the environmental dimension of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – the SDGs. • Find ways of connecting the Stockholm +50 in June 2022 to the proposed UNEP@50 conference scheduled to take place in February 2022 in connection with UNEA 5.2. A brief overview of UNEP@50| UNEP’s member states have expressed a strong interest in organising an event commemorating UNEPs’ fiftieth birthday, UNEP@50. After lengthy deliberations, UNEP’s Committee of Permanent Representatives, the CPR, issued a statement on December 10, 2020, concerning UNEP@ 50 and the Stockholm+50 Conference: §8. UNEP@50 is distinctly different from but closely interrelated with, a possible UN High-level Political meeting in Stockholm, that may take place in the second quarter of 2022, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference), subject to a possible decision by the UN General Assembly. §9. The UNEP@50 commemoration and the offer by Sweden to host a UN High-level meeting, (Stockholm+50), can be mutually reinforcing and contribute to a reinvigorated and modernized environmental multilateralism and to a strengthened capacity by UNEP to support the implementation of the environmental dimension of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and United Nations reform. The discussions which have taken place in the UNEA 5 Bureau and in the CPR, with input from the secretariat in UNEP, have resulted in a detailed list of possible items and themes to be discussed at UNEP@50, in the run-up to this conference including as outcomes from this conference. Among these are: • Kick-off at the virtual session of UNEA-5 in February 2021. • To be held in conjunction with the resumed session of UNEA-5 in February 2022, and then organized either as part of the High-level segment or as a back-to-back to UNEA 5, a two-day Special Session under the Presidency of UNEA 6. • Take stock of, endorse, or adopt the outcome of the consultation process under General Assembly Resolution 73/333 • Focus on UNEP’s core mandates (science-policy interface and international environmental governance). 4 • Different but interrelated with a possible UN High-level Political meeting in Stockholm in 2022. • Reinvigorate environmental multilateralism and strengthen UNEP. • Launch of the first UNEP “Global Assessments Synthesis Report” in advance of UNEA 5, as the substantive backdrop for outreach activities in 2021/22. • Launch of a UNEP@50 communication initiative and visual identity video. • Develop an outreach plan and campaign to commemorate UNEP@50. • Support engagement by the civil society and the general public to feel ownership for UNEP@50. • Solicit views for a new course for UNEP´s future, in light of current and emerging trends. • Tailor UNEP flagship reports and initiatives to UNEP@50 • Develop a “legacy publication” to be launched at the conclusion of UNEP@50. • The legacy publication will review the development of the global environmental science-policy interface since the creation of UNEP – including proposals on how to strengthen the environmental science-policy interface. • These publications will build on: o the Ad-hoc Global Assessment Dialogue, bringing together all major global scientific assessments to enhance synergies; and o ongoing work on enhanced environmental governance, policy coherence, and synergy across multi-lateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
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