The UNEA forum is more important than any other time because of spiraling inequality and poverty that threatens the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNEA-6 won’t solve the world’s problems overnight. What it will do is unite nations under the banner of environmental action, focus minds and energies on key solutions.
Achieving targeted temperature reductions is unattainable without nature, which has the potential to deliver approximately 30 per cent of the targeted climate solutions by 2030.
UNEA meets every two years to set the global environmental agenda, provide overarching policy guidance and define policy responses to address emerging environmental challenges.
Multilateral Environmental Agreements form the overarching international legal basis for global efforts to address particular environmental issues and achieve sustainable development.