Policy on Stakeholder Engagement: Report of the Executive Director

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.