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UNEA7 -Seventh UN Environment Assembly opens, aiming to advance solutions for planetary resilience

Seventh UN Environment Assembly opens, aiming to advance solutions for planetary resilience

Nairobi, 08 December 2025 – The seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) kicked off today in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, bringing together Ministers of Environment, intergovernmental organizations, multilateral environmental agreements, UN system entities, civil society, young people, and the private sector from across the globe to advance solutions for a resilient planet through multilateralism.

 

The UN Environment Assembly is the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment – its membership includes all 193 UN Member States. It meets biennially to set ...

Date: 08 December 2025    Comments: 0

Azerbaijan to Host the 13th session of the World Urban Forum WUF13 in 2026: from 17th-22nd May 2026 at the Baku Olympic Stadium under the theme “Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities.”

Media briefing for the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum Nairobi, 19 November 2025 — The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHabitat), together with the State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SCUPA), will host an international media briefing to inform journalists and correspondents on the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13). As the world’s premier global conference on sustainable urbanization, WUF13 will take place from 17 to 22 May 2026 at the Baku Olympic Stadium under the theme “Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities.” This briefing will provide an overview of the Forum’s programme, outline opportunities for media engagement and ...

Date: 02 December 2025    Comments: 0

Closing of COP30: Statement by UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen on the closing of COP30

Statement by UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen on the closing of COP30

 

"At the gateway to the Amazon, COP30 took place as geopolitical tensions continue to rise. Achieving progress in such uncertain and challenging times is never guaranteed, yet the talks in Belém have shown that the Paris Agreement is working and delivering results, including a call to triple adaptation finance by 2035, a Just Transition Mechanism to ensure the emerging green economy benefits everyone, and new dialogues on how trade can support climate-resilient economic transformation and how to integrate the protection of mountains into climate ...

Date: 02 December 2025    Comments: 0

UNEP to take part in Major Action Plans at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29),in Azerbaijan's capital,BAKU-2024

UNEP at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29)
Timelines 11 to 22 November 2024


Following another year of extreme weather events and record-breaking heatwaves, UNEP's 2024 Emissions Gap and Adaptation Gap Reports showed slow progress on emissions reduction and adaptation planning and finance. Nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance at 

Date: 11 November 2024    Comments: 6

Huge uplift needed on climate adaptation, starting with finance commitment at COP29

finance commitment at COP 29:

 

  • International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries increased from US$22 billion in 2021 to US$28 billion in 2022.
  • Even achieving the Glasgow Climate Pact goal of doubling adaptation finance to at least US$38 billion by 2025 would only cut the adaptation finance gap of US$187-359 billion by about 5 per cent.
  • In addition to enormous financing and implementation to address growing climate ...

    Date: 11 November 2024    Comments: 1

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