Background
Electric mobility is accelerating worldwide, particularly in China, Europe, Southeast Asia, and emerging markets across Africa and Latin America. This transformation delivers measurable benefits: reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved air quality in cities where people live and work, and new employment opportunities across manufacturing, service, and infrastructure sectors.
Yet significant barriers persist. Battery technology continues to evolve, costs remain a constraint for widespread adoption, charging and battery-swapping infrastructure struggles to keep pace with vehicle deployment, large-scale EV integration poses operational challenges for power grids, and questions around battery lifecycle management and critical mineral sourcing require coordinated solutions.
Addressing these challenges demands collaborative action across policy frameworks, financing mechanisms, and technology deployment—precisely the expertise that GEIDCO, UNEP, WWF, and participating countries bring to this dialogue.
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Event Details
- When: 8 December 2025, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EAT)
- Where: Conference Room 14, UN Complex, Nairobi, Kenya
- Expected participants: government officials, international organizations, private sector representatives, and technical experts
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About UNEA-7
The seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) takes place from 8 to 12 December 2025 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet. With more than 55 Ministers and 3,500 delegates expected to attend, the Assembly will address 19 draft resolutions covering artificial intelligence, minerals and metals, wildfire management, the hydrological cycle, and other pressing environmental challenges.
UNEA-7 convenes as recent data show environmental and climate impacts accelerating worldwide—rising emissions fueling record heatwaves, ecosystems vanishing, and pollution affecting air, water, and soil across all nations. The Assembly will focus on strengthening multilateralism to deliver united action across the triple planetary crisis, featuring a Youth Environment Assembly and a dedicated Multilateral Environmental Agreement Day that brings together major international agreements to align global efforts.
UNEP's flagship Global Environmental Outlook report, produced by 287 scientists from 82 countries, will be released on 9 December, highlighting solutions across economics and finance, circularity and waste, environment, energy, and food systems.
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About UNEP's Global Electric Mobility Programme
UNEP's Global Electric Mobility Programme supports close to 60 countries in the Global South with transitioning to electric mobility through technical assistance, policy guidance, capacity-building, and knowledge exchange. The programme addresses the full ecosystem of zero-emission transport, from vehicle technology and charging infrastructure to financing mechanisms and supply chain sustainability.
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