The resolution will help reduce environmental injustices, close protection gaps and empower people, especially those that are in vulnerable situations, including environmental human rights defenders, children, youth, women and indigenous peoples.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
UNEP unveiled Aquaman star and ocean activist Jason Momoa as the new Advocate for Life Below Water at the UN Ocean Conference.
UNEP gave Sir David Attenborough the Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication to research, documentation and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration.
With developing countries set to add 1 billion vehicles by 2050, efforts are needed to ensure that the fleet expansion is low- or zero-emission based. In 2022, UNEP launched its Global Electric Mobility Programme, which supports 50 low-and-middle-income countries with the shift from fossil fuel-based to electric vehicles.
The UNEP-hosted Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) provided technical assistance to 68 countries in 2022, helping to roll out innovations such as the Slamdam, a mobile flood barrier in Burundi. To date, the CTCN has supported 109 countries, benefited around 100 million people, and delivered 12.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent reductions per year.
Multilateralism delivered high-impact outcomes at the resumed second session of the fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2), which took place in February in Nairobi.
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