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UNEA 5 Daily Bulletin
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Below please find links to daily bulletins from key sessions around UNEA-5. These highlights document the global efforts to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and safe chemicals management as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. All reports are written by the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team from IISD.
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The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It brings together representatives of the 193 Member States of the UN, businesses, civil society leaders and other stakeholders to agree on policies that will tackle climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
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With at least two veteran negotiators back for a repeat engagement, a “dream team” of newer advocates coalescing, and a massive sense of urgency carrying over from 2020, this year’s United Nations climate conference in Glasgow may be shaping up as the biggest COP “moment” since the 2015 Paris Agreement even with the expected gaps in a major upcoming science report drawing comparisons to “Star Wars without Darth Vader”.
Last week, China announced that Xie Zhenhua, “one of its most respected climate experts and broker of the Paris Agreement,” will be leading its delegation in Glasgow in November, Climate Home News reports. At age 71, Zhenhua is well past the point when the country’s officials are expected to retire.
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