African Ministerial Conference on the Environment Thirteenth session: Annotations to the provisional agenda

This document provides annotations to the agenda for the AMCEN thirteenth session segment in Bamako, 23–25 June 2010, following an expert group segment. It states the session theme and objectives, including desertification, negotiations on a climate change regime beyond 2012, and an African position on biodiversity access and benefit-sharing ahead of the tenth Conference of the Parties. It explains agenda items on opening, elections, adoption of the agenda, reports on implementation and the expert group, three policy dialogue sessions, the trust fund, constitutional amendments, and AMCEN’s placement within African Union committee structures. Annexes list documents and the programme of work.