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Backgrounder: United Nations Environment Assembly

Xinhua, May 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world's Parliament of the environment, will take place in Kenyan capital Nairobi from May 23th to 27th.

The Assembly, representing the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will culminate in resolutions and a global call to action to address the critical environmental challenges facing the world.

The second session of the UNEA will be held under the theme of delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

UNEA provides a platform for leadership on global environmental policy to build a sustainable future, protect the environment, and safeguard human health.

UNEA is a result of the call made by world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Brazil in June 2012 to strengthen and upgrade the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the leading global environmental authority.

In 2013, member States recommended to the UN General Assembly that the UNEP Governing Council, the 58-member governing body of UNEP in place since 1972, be renamed the UNEA with universal membership.

The UNEA meets biennially with its first session held in June 2014 in Nairobi, which addressed major issues such as the illegal trade in wildlife, air quality, environmental rule of law, financing the Green Economy, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

During the second session, three documents that are critical to UNEP's work, including UNEP's Medium-Term Strategy for 2018-2021,UNEP's Programme of Work for 2018-2019, and the Outcome Document from UNEA's High-Level Segment will be approved. Endit