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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established by Maurice Strong , its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972.
On March 2, 2022, UN Member States voted at the resumed fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) with the mandate of advancing a legally-binding international agreement on plastics.
The main objective of the Forum is to provide a space for governments to establish priorities for environmental action, and to collaborate in the implementation of programs, projects and approaches to address those priorities in the region. It also serves as the regional coordinating body for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The ...
A major topic at the Conference was institutional expansion, which came to reality with the creation of the United Nations Environmental Program by General Assembly Resolution 2997. [4] Under the Action Plan, Earthwatch was established as an environmental assessment body to measure and identify global environmental issues as well as to forecast ...
Going Beyond the Borders of Sovereignty: the need for a United Nations Environment Organization, by Rodolpho Valente Bayma; EU Presidency Statement - United Nations 62nd General Assembly: General Debate, 15, pursuing the upgrading of UNEP to a UNEO. FrancEonu.org, Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York City. France-Diplomatie
UN-Water; United Nations Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance; United Nations Environment Organization; United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/285; United Nations Global Compact; United Nations System-wide Earthwatch; UpLink
On 8 May 2020, the United Nations Environment Programme nominated two co-facilitators to lead the process. Their mandate is to lead informal consultations to prepare a first draft of a "political declaration" that is to be debated at the UN Environmental Assembly's fifth session in February 2021.
In 2019, the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted the Fifth Montevideo Programme, which runs from January 2020 to December 2029, developed to build on the successes of the past programs. The aim is to enable countries to meet the environmental objectives found in United Nations resolutions, in particular, those adopted by the UN ...