IUCN at UNEA-7
The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment. It meets every two years to set the global environmental agenda, provide overarching policy guidance and define policy responses to address emerging environmental challenges. The theme for the seventh will be “Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet”.
UNEA represents a key moment for governments, international organisations, civil society, businesses, women and youth, to gather and discuss the most pressing environmental issues. The resolutions that are brought forward shape the environmental agenda for the years to come. IUCN is actively engaging on a number of resolutions, in particular those related to the synergies agenda, crime against the environment, cryosphere, deep-sea ecosystems, coral reefs, and sport for nature.
Furthermore, IUCN will host an official side event at UNEA7, together with the European Commission, Finland, and Slovenia. The event will be titled "Flow Forward: Transboundary water cooperation to restore and sustain water ecosystems from source to sea” and focus on the hydrological cycle.
This high-level side event will convene governments, practitioners and other stakeholders, including representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities, to identify ways to strengthen effective water governance for the restoration, conservation, and sustainable management of water ecosystems, and the aquatic biodiversity that depends on these freshwater ecosystems —including rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, and coastal zones.
