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The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is an opportunity to galvanize broad engagement in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world. Key motivating factors for engagement include the economic benefits of nature, the importance of healthy environments for human health, and reforming food systems.

Underpinning these efforts are the values we…

The United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Geneva will launch the Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis report in an online press event.

The press conference will take place at 9:40am / 10:40am EAT on Tuesday, 26 April 2022, and it will be followed by an hybrid event with leading experts from 3:00pm to 4:30pm CEST/ from 4:00pm to 5:30pm EAT. To join…

When: 28 April 2022; 10.00 am - 11.30 am EAT

Where: Online

What: The Third Pole (TP) – the Asian water tower and largest alpine ecosystem in the world – comprises the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas of the Pamir-Hindu Kush mountains in the west, the Hengduan mountains in the east, the Tienshan and Qilian mountains in the north, and the Himalayas in the south. It covers over…

TIME: 15:00-17:00

VENUE: Hybrid (Executive Office Boardroom, United Nations Office of Nairobi and Online)

Chaired by: H.E. Mr. Pirkka Tapiola, Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives, Ambassador of Finland to Kenya and Permanent Representative to UNEP

Annotated provisional Agenda  Uploaded on 21 April 2022

 

Time:  14:00 - 17:00

VENUE: HYBRID (Conference Room 2 and online)

Chaired by: H.E. Mr. Pirkka Tapiola, Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives, Ambassador of Finland to Kenya and Permanent Representative to UNEP

Time:  TBC

Venue: TBC

Objectives

The objectives of the 22nd annual meeting is to launch the new Regional Seas Strategic Directions 2022 – 2025 and kickstart its implementation.

The meeting will also deliberate on

Marine litter and plastics pollution in light of Resolution to End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument (UNEP/EA5/L23/REV.1) and the Role of the…

Time:  TBC

VENUE: TBC

 

In resolution 5/14, UNEA-5.2 requested the UNEP Executive Director to convene an intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. 

Also as part of resolution 5/14, the UNEP Executive Director is…

“Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity”

Official website: https://www.stockholm50.global/

(Stockholm+50) is an international meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly to be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 2-3 June 2022.

It will commemorate the 50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the…