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Over 7,000 delegates at the United Nations Environment Assembly deliberated on resolutions and decisions around climate justice.
Heads of State and Government, Ministers, senior UN officials, members of civil society, and the private sector gathered at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi for the High-Level Segment of the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6). World leaders expressed their determination to accelerate multilateral action on the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and pollution. They emphasised the need for greater collaboration in tackling the interconnected environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
President William Ruto of Kenya was joined by Heads of State and Government, including President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana, President Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, Transitional President Brice Nguema of Gabon, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, and Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti, and other leaders from Africa and beyond, stressed the urgency of united action. Ruto acknowledged the complex global challenges but emphasised the crucial role of UNEA-6 in forging effective multilateral solutions.
UNEA-6 is the first intergovernmental global meeting after COP28. This places upon this Assembly a tremendous responsibility to expeditiously deliver on its agenda in full, and thereby demonstrate the power of international cooperation and effective multilateralism,” President Ruto told delegates. This is a challenging task, which is complicated by the fact that nations of the world are all grappling with a dynamic complex of interconnected and multifaceted threats, risks, uncertainties, and shocks, ranging from sluggish economic growth, conflict and wars, and geopolitical fragmentation.
Heads of State and Government sounded the alarm on the worsening impacts of climate change on communities, acknowledging that the transboundary nature of environmental challenges necessitates strong multilateral responses.
More than 7,000 delegates from 182 UN Member States and more than 170 Ministers have registered for UNEA-6. The Assembly has 19 resolutions and two decisions under discussion – they covered a range of issues, including circular economy; effective, inclusive, and sustainable multilateral actions towards climate justice; solar radiation modification; sound management of chemicals and waste, and sand and dust storms.
A series of leadership and multi-stakeholder dialogues and more than 30 official side events and associated events took place at UNEA-6. The Assembly also highlighted the importance of cooperation with multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) – international agreements that address the most pressing environmental issues of global or regional concern and are critical instruments of international environmental governance and international environmental law – with a full day devoted to strengthening convergence of actions and sharing of experiences while also providing increased visibility to the MEAs.
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The UN Environment Assembly is the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment – its membership includes all 193 UN Member States. It meets biennially to shape global environmental policy. The Assembly also defines the work of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
