United Nations Environment Assembly of the UNEP (UNEA)

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The United Nations Environment Assembly of the UNEP (UNEA) is the main governing body of UNEP. ;

Forty years later, at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the international community decided to strengthen and upgrade UNEP including through the establishment of universal membership in the Governing Council. As a follow up to this decision, the Governing Council held its first session with universal membership in February 2013, where countries agreed to rename the Governing Council as the “United Nations Environment Assembly of the UNEP” (UNEA). Subsequently, the General Assembly adopted a resolution formally changing the designation to UNEA (67/251).

According to the decision adopted at the first session of the Governing Council with universal membership (27th session), UNEA will meet biennially in Nairobi starting in 2014. UNEA is mandated to ensure the active participation of all relevant stakeholders in the governance of UNEP and to promote a strong science-policy interface.

In response UNEP developed in collaborations with all relevant stakeholders new modalities for stakeholder engagement in UNEP. The draft UNEP stakeholder engagement policy will be presented at the 1st session of the UNEA of UNEP. 

1. Stakeholder Engagement Policy
2. Statements and recommendations by Major Groups and Stakeholders to the United Nations Environment Assembly at its first session(UNEP/EA.1/INF/7)

Important links: For all official documents please refer to the following links:

1. Working Documents 
2. Information Documents
3. Papersmart portal – NB: The in session documents are only accessible at the UNEP complex, Gigri, Nairobi
4. Thematic Clusters Discussions
5. Oral Statements made by Major Groups & Stakeholders stakeholders during UNEA
6. Written Statements by Major Groups and Stakeholders to UNEA
7. List of decisions and resolutions adopted at UNEA of the UNEP at its first session(23-27 June 2014)