The eleventh meeting of the Capacity Building Coordination Framework under the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) was held in Palais des Nations, Geneva on 9 October 2018, from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. The meeting was held back-to-back with the eighth meeting of the Task Force on Public Participation in Decision-making (Geneva, 8-9 October 2018).
The meeting focussed on discussing the potential cooperation within existing and future capacity-building activities under the Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs in the light of the decisions of the Meetings of the Parties to the Convention and the Protocol adopted at the latest session (Budva, Montenegro, 14-15 September 2017), 22nd meeting of the Working Group of the Parties to the Convention (Geneva, 19-21 June 2018) and upcoming 2019 in-depth review of the progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 16.