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Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino / 23 Feb 2021 The backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners, catalyses public and private funds to combat deforestation, with the goal to cut annual emissions by 1 gigaton by 2025. As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA)  in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.   “It is fundamental in the fight against the environmental emergency that faces us.” Forests and woodlands are important stores of pl...

Photo by Grant Ritchie/ Unsplash / 23 Feb 2021 Statement prepared for delivery at the closing session of the Fifth UN Environment Assembly Minister Rotevatn, Excellencies, distinguished Ambassadors, Observers, partners and friends, It has been a complex, uncertain and at times difficult journey – but here we are – at the conclusion of the first-ever virtual UN Environment Assembly. Excellencies, I salute you for continuing to raise a strong voice for a planet in crisis. I salute you for recognizing that we cannot afford to wait any longer to make peace with nature. I salute you for the i...

Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations today concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the world risks new pandemics if we don’t change how we safeguard nature.

Pakistan to host World Environment Day 2021 Nairobi, 22 February 2021 – Pakistan announced today that it will host World Environment Day 2021 in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). This year’s observance of World Environment Day will be on the theme of ‘ecosystem restoration’ and focus on resetting our relation with nature. It will also mark the formal launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021 – 2030. World Environment Day takes place every year on 5 June. It is the United Nations’ flagship day for promoting worldwide awareness and action for the en...

Speech prepared for the launch of the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency at the Fifth UN Environment Assembly