RT null T1 Briefing Note on Process and Nominations for the Secretariat’s Proposal for a Bureau of the GEO-7 Ad-hoc Open-ended Meetings of Experts A1 United Nations Environment Programme, K1 expert K1 report preparation YR 2022 FD 2022-09 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/40647 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/40647 NO Following the invitation to Member States and Stakeholders to nominate experts from UNEP’s Executive Director in her letter dated 17 June 2022, the Secretariat has received more than 250 nominations to attend the 2 inaugural open-ended meetings of experts to launch the preparation of the seventh edition of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) scheduled for 19-22 September (virtual meeting, focusing on procedural matters) and 17-20 October 2022 (in-person/hybrid meeting, focusing on scoping of GEO-7). To ensure effective Member State leadership of these meetings, on 18 August the Secretariat issued a call for expressions of interest to nominated Member States experts to form a regionally and gender balanced bureau consisting of two co-chairs, two vice-chairs and one rapporteur for the GEO-7 open-ended meetings. In total, 14 nominated Member State experts submitted expressions of interest to become a member of the GEO-7 Bureau. NO https://www.unep.org/future-global-environment-outlook DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 18, 2026