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.