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5th UNEA Assembly
April 9 , 2022
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- The Assembly is made up of the 193 UN Member States.
- It convenes every two years to advance global environmental governance
- It was held at Nairobi, Kenya.
- It concluded with 14 resolutions to strengthen actions for nature to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
- It agreed to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee with the mandate to forge an international legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by 2024.
- It was followed by the UNEP@50 event.
- The countries of the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an initiative of the 1972 Stockholm Conference.
- The decision to establish UNEP’s headquarters in Nairobi was taken by the UN in 1972.
- The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) remains the only UN headquarters in the southern hemisphere.
- The UNEP contributed to the adoption of a global solution in 1987 – the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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