Indicative programme - Environment Council meeting of 19 June 2017

Place:        European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL)
Chair:        Dr Jose A. Herrera, Minister for sustainable development, environment and climate change of Malta 

All times are approximate and subject to change

+/- 08.00
Arrivals

+/- 09.00
Doorstep by Minister Herrera  

+/- 10.00      
Beginning of Council meeting (Roundtable)
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of non-legislative A Items 

+/- 10.10      
Non-ETS sectors (public session)
- Effort sharing
- Land use, land use change and forestry
+/- 12.10      
Latest developments on the Paris Agreement (public session)
+/- 13.10      
Other business
- Project on "Development of Urban Adaptation Plans for cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants in Poland"
- Ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol 

+/- 13.20
Working lunch: Preparations for 3rd session of the UN Environment Assembly
(Guest: UNEP Executive Director, Erik Solheim)   

+/- 15.00      
EU Action Plan for nature, people and the economy
+/- 15.30         
Other business
- Waste legislative package (public session)
- Recent international meetings (Triple COPs to Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention and MOPs to the Espoo Convention)
- International Conference on the Role of Women in Mountain Regions (Alpbach, Tyrol, 18-19 April 2017)
- Outcome of the Ocean Conference (New York, 5-9 June 2017)
- Vienna Declaration: 11th Nano-Authorities Dialogue (Vienna, 29-30 March 2017)
- Work programme of the Estonian presidency 

+/- 16.30       Press conference (live streaming) 

• Rådet (miljø), 19.6.2017
• Photos and videos from the meeting, Environment Council, 19 June 2017
• Pressekonferencer og offentlige begivenheder på videostreaming