African Ministerial Conference on the Environment Expert group Thirteenth meeting: Annotations to the provisional agenda

This document provides annotations to the agenda for the thirteenth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Bamako, Mali, 21–25 June 2010, describing an expert segment and a ministerial segment. It sets objectives for ministers to deliberate on desertification, climate change negotiations beyond 2012, biodiversity, and an indicative 2011–2012 work programme, and to review the AMCEN trust fund and a revised draft constitution. It outlines organizational arrangements, bureau roles, election procedures, and presentations by the secretariat, the African Union Commission, and the NEPAD Coordinating Agency, with working groups to prepare draft decisions, the Bamako Declaration, and reports.